Excel files don't open until a click on blank worksheet

[JamJam]

I'm having a weird Excel problem that I can't figure out the origin
of. It's been happening ever since I installed 2007 many months ago.
If I double-click an Excel file to open it, Excel opens and a
worksheet called Personal appears. However, the file I clicked on
does not oen. Then, if I simply right-click on any cell in the
Personal worksheet, Excel seems to start chugging again and then my
file opens. And just now, I've discovered that a left-click works as
well. If Excel is already open, this problem doesn't happen...I can
then open any file from within Excel or double-click a file somewhere
and that opens fine. Seems to be something to do with Excel starting
up. I've disabled Add-Ins but that doesn't seem to do anything to
help the problem.

I'm running Excel 2007 SP1 in Windows XP SP2.

Thanks for any advice/suggestions!

 

[Tyro]

You have a workbook called Personal.xlsx (or Personal.xlsm) stored in
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLStart.
Excel automatically opens this workbook, your personal workbook if it is
present. It is a workbook you created. You can simply hide this workbook and
save it and it will not appear when you open Excel. Or you can delete the
workbook from your drive. But remember, you created it, so it may contain
something you want.

Tyro