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How to stop Excel 2003 from loading a Gazillion files

How to stop Excel 2003 from loading a Gazillion files

One of my soon-to-be-ex-friends got an Excel file from another friend of his and decided to click on it. It started opening all kinds of files from within Excel. Over 200 and still counting when he called me.

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Guest [Entry]

"Appreciate your pointing out the XLStart folder. I thought I looked in there and found it empty, but I could be wrong. At any rate, the icon for Excel on the desktop now reads DO NOT TOUCH and the machine is being carted to my locale two days hence. At that point, I will investigate and report. Thanks every so much for taking the time to chime in.

NOTE: Problem resolved. I HAD emptied the XLStart folder when trying to fix the issue. Today, I got my hands on the machine and was able to fumble my way through the solution. Turns out the user had modified his options and in trying to enter C:\Worksheets into the Load Files From field and entered it into the On Startup, Load All Files In field. And he had other non-worksheet files in the Worksheet folder. Instant load overload.

Took renaming the worksheet folder to get Excel to load semi-properly. It still complained about an add-in for one of the PDF files. Once in there, I changed the setting and opened and closed it a couple of times. Then I renamed the folder back to its proper name and started up Excel. And nothing happened. Success. Thanks to all who helped me out of this jam. GM"
Guest [Entry]

TO add to what Molly said; If there is a personal.xls file in the XLStart folder, it could be the culprit. Check to see if it exists, and if so, see if there is any code set to run whenever it is opened. This file, once it is created, will always open in the background as a hidden workbook whenever excel is opened.