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MS Office Forum / Excel / General Excel Questions / May 2007How do I prevent excel from opening with a blank worksheet?
I rarely start a new spreadsheet from scratch...most of the time I want to just open Excel, but with no blank/template loading automatically. Where do I set this switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance You can create a new shortcut and use that. Use something like this as the target: "C:\yourpathto\excel.exe" /e > I rarely start a new spreadsheet from scratch...most of the time I want to > just open Excel, but with no blank/template loading automatically. Where do > I set this switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance  SignatureDave Peterson I have the same problem. I tried doing what you suggested and it didn't work for me or either I did it wrong...HELP! > You can create a new shortcut and use that. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > just open Excel, but with no blank/template loading automatically. Where do > > I set this switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance See Excel Help and look up Customize how Excel starts for "Stop a workbook........." > I have the same problem. I tried doing what you suggested and it didn't work > for me or either I did it wrong...HELP! [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >>>just open Excel, but with no blank/template loading automatically. Where do >>>I set this switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance Here's mine. Did you forget the space "C:\Program Files\microsoft office2003\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e SignatureDon Guillett SalesAid Software dguillett1@austin.rr.com >I have the same problem. I tried doing what you suggested and it didn't >work [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> > Where do >> > I set this switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance This procedure clears all ways in which a workbook could be loaded. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab. Clear the contents of the At startup, open all files in box. Remove workbooks stored in the XLStart folder. In Windows Explorer, remove the icon of the workbook you want to open in an alternate startup folder. Remove a startup switch from the Excel icon. Right-click the Excel icon that you want to use to open Excel, and clear the contents of the Target box. SignatureGary''s Student gsnu200710 > I rarely start a new spreadsheet from scratch...most of the time I want to > just open Excel, but with no blank/template loading automatically. Where do > I set this switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance Gary''s wrote on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:36:02 -0700: Gs> On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Gs> General tab. Clear the contents of the At startup, open all Gs> files in box. Gs> Remove workbooks stored in the XLStart folder. Gs> In Windows Explorer, remove the icon of the workbook you Gs> want to open in an alternate startup folder. Gs> Remove a startup switch from the Excel icon. Gs> Right-click the Excel icon that you want to use to open Gs> Excel, and clear the contents of the Target box. That does not seem to work. The target is a greyed out Microsoft Office XP Professional that I cannot change. The Start in: box is empty. ??>> I rarely start a new spreadsheet from scratch...most of ??>> the time I want to just open Excel, but with no ??>> blank/template loading automatically. Where do I set this ??>> switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not Since I upgraded to Excel 2007 the Tools/Options choice does not exist anymore. I have opened the Options box but I could not find a way to prevent a blank worksheet from opening on startup. Please tell me how to accomplish this in Excel 2007; it is very annoying when I just want to open an existing file. Thanks. > This procedure clears all ways in which a workbook could be loaded. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > just open Excel, but with no blank/template loading automatically. Where do > > I set this switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:10:00 -0700 from cyndiwise notsowise <cyndiwisenotsowise@discussions.microsoft.com>: > Since I upgraded to Excel 2007 the Tools/Options choice does not exist > anymore. I have opened the Options box but I could not find a way to prevent > a blank worksheet from opening on startup. Please tell me how to accomplish > this in Excel 2007; it is very annoying when I just want to open an existing > file. Thanks. If you just want to open an existing file, double-click the file instead of starting Excel yourself. SignatureStan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ You can't do this in 2007 > This procedure clears all ways in which a workbook could be loaded. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > just open Excel, but with no blank/template loading automatically. Where do > > I set this switch...maybe in the Registry??! thanks in advance |
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