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Old December 1st, 2009, 06:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.setup
Carlos
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Default Automatically open a specific spreadsheet when opening Excel

When initially opening Excel, is there any way to have Excel open up a
specific spreadsheet determined via Excel Options?

I would like Excel to open a spreadsheet that I always need automatically
every single time I open up the program.

Let me know if there is any way to do this?

Thanks for your help!
Carlos
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Old December 1st, 2009, 07:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.setup
Gord Dibben
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Default Automatically open a specific spreadsheet when opening Excel

Place the workbook in your XLSTART folder or your Alternate startup folder.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:17:02 -0800, Carlos
wrote:

When initially opening Excel, is there any way to have Excel open up a
specific spreadsheet determined via Excel Options?

I would like Excel to open a spreadsheet that I always need automatically
every single time I open up the program.

Let me know if there is any way to do this?

Thanks for your help!
Carlos


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Old December 1st, 2009, 09:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.setup
Dave Peterson
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Default Automatically open a specific spreadsheet when opening Excel

You could put that workbook in your XLStart folder.

You could put the workbook in a folder that excel looks at when it starts.
Then change an option to tell excel to start looking there (in xl2003 menus):
Tools|Options|General tab
Put the folder name in the: At startup, open all files in:

Don't put other files in this folder--unless you want excel to try to open them.

Personally, I wouldn't do either of these.

Instead I'd open windows explorer.
Traverse to the drive/folder that contains that file.
right click on it and choose:
Send to
then choose
Desktop (create shortcut)

Then use this shortcut to start excel.

This gives me the option of not starting this workbook when I really don't want
it open.


Carlos wrote:

When initially opening Excel, is there any way to have Excel open up a
specific spreadsheet determined via Excel Options?

I would like Excel to open a spreadsheet that I always need automatically
every single time I open up the program.

Let me know if there is any way to do this?

Thanks for your help!
Carlos


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