'Find' already wanting to look for something

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This is something *I've* never seen before, but not sure if anyone else has come across this.

For some reason lately whenever I use Ctrl+F to open the Find dialog, there is already something in the 'find what' box. It is always the number 211.

I didn't notice this until this week, but it happens with any workbook--even a blank one with no macros/data anywhere. Also, there is nothing in the personal workbook that would be doing this. The only Workbook_Open macro I have is to make sure the task pane comes up when I start Excel, and no personal.xls macros have anything to do with searching/finding.

Any ideas on why this is happening? If I can't get rid of it, I guess it's not that big of a deal as I can just type over it when I bring up the box (which is what I've been doing). I'm just finding the whole thing rather odd.

Thanks!
 

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