Excel start-up: no blank work-book

[Guest]

How do I set Excel so that when I start it, it does not create a new/blank
work-book? (I want to just use the 'recent files' menu to pick something
most of the time.)

 

[Dave Peterson]

Modify the shortcut (or create an new shortcut) that points at excel.exe, but
add " /e" (w/o the quotes) to the end of the target.

For me (xl2003), my target would look like:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e