Excel keeps opening many documents at once

[Terri Creagh]

I
I have an urgent problem! All of a sudden, when I opened MSExcel 2000, it
tried to open many, many files, one right after the other, without regard to
the file format. It also kept giving a "format is not valid" message with
every document. I am running Windows 2000 and Microsoft Office 2000 Small
Business (version 9.0.3822) on a Dell Dimension 8100 with lots of RAM and
lots of conventional memory. My firewall is ZoneAlarm and I have Norton
Antivirus. MS Office 2000 was pre-installed by Dell, I have tried
re-installing MSOffice 2000, but that did not fix the problem.



Thank you.

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
check if thrse files are located in your XLStart folder

 

[Dave Peterson]

In excel, you can change a setting that tells excel to open all the files in a
folder:

Tools|options|general tab
"at startup, open all files in:" <xl2002+ wording>
"Alternate Startup File location" <before xl2002 wording>

Most people keep that box empty.