I'm using Excel 2000 and used to have the File drop-down menu display the
last several files (4) used. For some reason, that feature has disappeared
and when I attempted to reset that feature, I screwed up something and now
when I open Excel, it immediately tries to open my *.doc files and the
drop-down message says it, obviously, cannot open them and cannot get out of
it without rebooting. Suggestions, please!

Bill

Tools>Options>General>Recently Used Files List............check it and set a
number.

For the second problem, delete any path in Tools>Options>General "At start
up open all files in:"


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:10:35 -0700, "Bill Helbron" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I'm using Excel 2000 and used to have the File drop-down menu display the
>last several files (4) used. For some reason, that feature has disappeared
>and when I attempted to reset that feature, I screwed up something and now
>when I open Excel, it immediately tries to open my *.doc files and the
>drop-down message says it, obviously, cannot open them and cannot get out of
>it without rebooting. Suggestions, please!
>
>Bill
>

Hi Gord,

Thanks for your reply! Fortunately, about 10 minutes after I posted the
email, I found my problem. I keep a few of my *.xls files in different
location and set that location in the "Alternate files location:" block. I
didn't remember that that particular location also had many *.doc files in
it! So I deleted the "Alternate file location" and everything returned to
normal!

Thanks again!

Bill


"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Tools>Options>General>Recently Used Files List............check it and set
> a
> number.
>
> For the second problem, delete any path in Tools>Options>General "At start
> up open all files in:"
>
>
> Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:10:35 -0700, "Bill Helbron" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>I'm using Excel 2000 and used to have the File drop-down menu display the
>>last several files (4) used. For some reason, that feature has disappeared
>>and when I attempted to reset that feature, I screwed up something and now
>>when I open Excel, it immediately tries to open my *.doc files and the
>>drop-down message says it, obviously, cannot open them and cannot get out
>>of
>>it without rebooting. Suggestions, please!
>>
>>Bill
>>
>