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Need help with Excel Startup problem
I'm helping a user in my office with this problem. When she starts Excel, a
message popups up that says, "filename.doc" is in the wrong format. She's not sure what she did that might generate such an error. I've checked all the settings and I can't tell where Excel is looking for the forementioned file. Does anyone out there have a clue where I might look to try to fix this error. Thanks, Sandy |
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Need help with Excel Startup problem
Have you tried tools-options-general to see if your file is mentioned there? Martin http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.rice1/ -- mrice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrice's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=10931 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=531998 |
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Need help with Excel Startup problem
Look under toolsoptionsgeneral and "at startup open all files in:"
-- Regards, Peo Sjoblom http://nwexcelsolutions.com "Sandy" wrote in message ... I'm helping a user in my office with this problem. When she starts Excel, a message popups up that says, "filename.doc" is in the wrong format. She's not sure what she did that might generate such an error. I've checked all the settings and I can't tell where Excel is looking for the forementioned file. Does anyone out there have a clue where I might look to try to fix this error. Thanks, Sandy |
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"Sandy" wrote: I'm helping a user in my office with this problem. When she starts Excel, a message popups up that says, "filename.doc" is in the wrong format. She's not sure what she did that might generate such an error. I've checked all the settings and I can't tell where Excel is looking for the forementioned file. Does anyone out there have a clue where I might look to try to fix this error. Thanks, Sandy |
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Need help with Excel Startup problem
Thanks for your responses. Unfortunately, I removed everything in the Tools,
Options, General, Startup files.... It still doesn't take care of the problem. At startup, the user still gets the popup message, "Cost.doc is in the wrong format". If I use the CTRL key to start in Safe mode, it works fine. I can't figure out what it's looking for and how to stop it from trying to open that file. Thanks again for your suggestions.... "Sandy" wrote: I'm helping a user in my office with this problem. When she starts Excel, a message popups up that says, "filename.doc" is in the wrong format. She's not sure what she did that might generate such an error. I've checked all the settings and I can't tell where Excel is looking for the forementioned file. Does anyone out there have a clue where I might look to try to fix this error. Thanks, Sandy |
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Need help with Excel Startup problem
Here are a couple of links that describe how to find start up errors:
Chip Pearson has some notes on how to diagnose startup errors at: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm And Jan Karel Pieterse has more notes at: http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp Sandy wrote: Thanks for your responses. Unfortunately, I removed everything in the Tools, Options, General, Startup files.... It still doesn't take care of the problem. At startup, the user still gets the popup message, "Cost.doc is in the wrong format". If I use the CTRL key to start in Safe mode, it works fine. I can't figure out what it's looking for and how to stop it from trying to open that file. Thanks again for your suggestions.... "Sandy" wrote: I'm helping a user in my office with this problem. When she starts Excel, a message popups up that says, "filename.doc" is in the wrong format. She's not sure what she did that might generate such an error. I've checked all the settings and I can't tell where Excel is looking for the forementioned file. Does anyone out there have a clue where I might look to try to fix this error. Thanks, Sandy -- Dave Peterson |
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Dave,
Thanks for the helpful links. I think I've found the answer to the problem and will test it out later today. Thanks again! "Dave Peterson" wrote: Here are a couple of links that describe how to find start up errors: Chip Pearson has some notes on how to diagnose startup errors at: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm And Jan Karel Pieterse has more notes at: http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp Sandy wrote: Thanks for your responses. Unfortunately, I removed everything in the Tools, Options, General, Startup files.... It still doesn't take care of the problem. At startup, the user still gets the popup message, "Cost.doc is in the wrong format". If I use the CTRL key to start in Safe mode, it works fine. I can't figure out what it's looking for and how to stop it from trying to open that file. Thanks again for your suggestions.... "Sandy" wrote: I'm helping a user in my office with this problem. When she starts Excel, a message popups up that says, "filename.doc" is in the wrong format. She's not sure what she did that might generate such an error. I've checked all the settings and I can't tell where Excel is looking for the forementioned file. Does anyone out there have a clue where I might look to try to fix this error. Thanks, Sandy -- Dave Peterson |
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