files opening from hard drive without prompt,

[Guest]

if I try to open an excel document from an email, one of my directories,
allows me to open, no; I should sayt as I try to an excel attachment,
suddenly files begin to open like I've asked it to open all the files in a
particular subdirectory on the hard drive. It never does open the
attachment. I don't think. Not sure about that. Let me know if you've not
heard of this before, I swear, i've never seen this from a Microsoft program,
ever!

 

[Guest]

hi,
i have never heard of that either. but i have experianced
something similar. turned out to be a virus. run virus
scan.

 

[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. But this would affect excel anytime you opened
it--not just opening an attachment in an email.