screenupdating off when excel launched via double-click of file

J

Jon Crowell

When I double-click an Excel file, Excel is launched but with
screenupdating off. All I see is a gray background under the menu bar.
This happens for all Excel files, regardless of whether they have any
macros.

Does anybody know what causes this behavior?

My workarounds:
1. Launch Excel first, then open the file.
2. Launch the VBA editor and set screenupdating to true.

These work OK, but I'd really like to solve the problem.

I'm running Windows XP sp2 and Excel 2002 sp3.

-Jon
 
H

Harald Staff

Hi Jon

I suspect an addin, either installed (Tools > Addin menu), "personal.xls" or
something in the Startup folder.

HTH. Best wishes Harald
 

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