if you have an excel shortcut icon on your desktop, right click it, go to "properties" then "shortcut" and at the end of the path within "target" add the following onto the end :
/e
in '97 this stops the excel logo popping up when you open but it also doesn't bring up a starting book1.xls
dunno if this might help...but worth trying
I've been using this ever since Jack himself suggested it a few months ago
big :wink:
This message was edited by Chris Davison on 2002-04-24 15:30