I've been using Office 2007 for some time and a new problem just came up.
When I try to open excel files either from outlook or an icon, it's opening
in a very odd window.

It comes up in a new window that is pale blue. There's no title bar saying
excel, filename, no minimize, maximize, exit buttons. Ready is shown in the
top left corner, next to that is a white box that when I hover it says no
macros are recording, click to begin recording. On the top right area is
three boxes that look like view layouts. pressing them does nothing. Then
last in the right top corner is a zoom slider currently at 100%. changing
that makes no difference.

Then the entire middle area of the window is blank, just solid pale blue.

Nothing on the bottom. Interesting thing is that I can resize the window
from the bottom and if I shrink it down to a 1/4 inch or so, the title bar
appears, I get the min/max/close buttons, excel title is there with no file
name, and then I get the ribbon back. But there's still no workbook.

I wish the group supported images, as I would have put a screen shot up
making it easier.

If I open excel from the start menu, it opens fine, I can then go pick a
file and it seems to work okay.

Any ideas on what is going on? I just tried windows update and it didn't
make a difference.