excel wont open

[mike]

every time i try to open up excel it says it is looking
for a file from frontpage?? i tried to update all of my
microsoft office applications, but it wont give me the
latest security patch because it is looking for this same
file??? any help....

 

[Dave Peterson]

Something that is being opened is causing trouble.

It could be an addin checked in Tools|Addins or a file in your XLStart folder
(or if you are using tools|options|General|"Alternate Startup File location", it
could be in there--this was renamed to: "at startup, open all files in:" in
later versions.)

(Not many use the alternate startup file location, so try erasing that value
from that box in excel--don't delete the real folder. If that fixed it, you're
done.)

If not, your task will be to uncheck everything in tools|addins, remove all the
files from the XLStart (and alternate startup location) and start adding things
back one by one.

And restart excel between each change--until you find the culprit.

Chip Pearson has some additional notes to help diagnose this kind of problem at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm