Excel 2000 tries to open unrecognizable file on startup

Hi,

For the last couple of weeks, when I first open Excel I get a
Microsoft Excel Error pop-up window that says "This file is not in a
recognizable format....".

I am uncertain what file it is trying to open, but when I click "cancel" it
opens books1.xls. Which I usually ignore and go into "open file" and pick my
excel file.

Any idea what is going on?

Win98
Excel 2000

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Thanks - Jeff

Hi Jeff

Excel will open all files that are stored in its startup directory. Change that directory
in Tools > Options menu or move the files.

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HTH. Best wishes Harald
Followup to newsgroup only please.

"1 Just Jeff" <jhopkins4@"nospam"sc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> For the last couple of weeks, when I first open Excel I get a
> Microsoft Excel Error pop-up window that says "This file is not in a
> recognizable format....".
>
> I am uncertain what file it is trying to open, but when I click "cancel" it
> opens books1.xls. Which I usually ignore and go into "open file" and pick my
> excel file.
>
> Any idea what is going on?
>
> Win98
> Excel 2000
>
> --
> Thanks - Jeff
>
>

Hi Harald,

If followed your advice and it worked well. I then backtracked to see if I
could determine the cause of the problem (should have been working!) -
anyway, this is what I found -


1) I had a stray file in the xlStart folder that did not have the .xls, xlt
extension
and
2) I noticed (Tools>Options...>General), that I had a useless entry in the
alternate start-up location. I deleted it.

All's working now - and again thanks for the help.

Thanks - Jeff









"Harald Staff" <innocent@enron.invalid> wrote in message
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> Hi Jeff
>
> Excel will open all files that are stored in its startup directory. Change
that directory
> in Tools > Options menu or move the files.
>
> --
> HTH. Best wishes Harald
> Followup to newsgroup only please.
>
> "1 Just Jeff" <jhopkins4@"nospam"sc.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:#weaMHYsDHA.2440@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > For the last couple of weeks, when I first open Excel I get a
> > Microsoft Excel Error pop-up window that says "This file is not in a
> > recognizable format....".
> >
> > I am uncertain what file it is trying to open, but when I click "cancel"
it
> > opens books1.xls. Which I usually ignore and go into "open file" and
pick my
> > excel file.
> >
> > Any idea what is going on?
> >
> > Win98
> > Excel 2000
> >
> > --
> > Thanks - Jeff
> >
> >
>
>