Microsoft Excel Startup

[Guest]

I have a very strange and sketchy situation. Everytime I start Microsoft Excel, the document does not open until "Ewpe2" has been opened (it displays in the status bar). This is the second thing that opens before my document. I believe the first is "ewpe" but am unsure

Let me explain, because there was no stop created by this and it occured rather quickly, I was unable to read it. So, as the document opened I used print screen to capture the information. For the second program (Ewpe2) the result was perfect, I was able to paste the screen into paint and view the status

However, for the first, when I paste into paint I get an uppercase sigma (the greek letter) in gray on a pink background. It measures about an inch by an inch (on an 800 X 600 pixel screen). It flashes to fast to be certain however it does look like "ewpe"

I am worried about what this is as none of my other workstations do this and no other Office program on the station does this. Any ideas

Thanks
Mike

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

Look in the xlstart directory - any files there are loaded on startup.

Also, look in tools=>addins and see if you have any non-standard addins
selected.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

I have a very strange and sketchy situation. Everytime I start Microsoft

Excel, the document does not open until "Ewpe2" has been opened (it displays
in the status bar). This is the second thing that opens before my document.
I believe the first is "ewpe" but am unsure.

Let me explain, because there was no stop created by this and it occured

rather quickly, I was unable to read it. So, as the document opened I used
print screen to capture the information. For the second program (Ewpe2) the
result was perfect, I was able to paste the screen into paint and view the
status.

However, for the first, when I paste into paint I get an uppercase sigma

(the greek letter) in gray on a pink background. It measures about an inch
by an inch (on an 800 X 600 pixel screen). It flashes to fast to be certain
however it does look like "ewpe".

I am worried about what this is as none of my other workstations do this

and no other Office program on the station does this. Any ideas?