excel wont open

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mike

every time i try to open up excel it says it is looking
for a file from frontpage?? i tried to update all of my
microsoft office applications, but it wont give me the
latest security patch because it is looking for this same
file??? any help....
 
Something that is being opened is causing trouble.

It could be an addin checked in Tools|Addins or a file in your XLStart folder
(or if you are using tools|options|General|"Alternate Startup File location", it
could be in there--this was renamed to: "at startup, open all files in:" in
later versions.)

(Not many use the alternate startup file location, so try erasing that value
from that box in excel--don't delete the real folder. If that fixed it, you're
done.)

If not, your task will be to uncheck everything in tools|addins, remove all the
files from the XLStart (and alternate startup location) and start adding things
back one by one.

And restart excel between each change--until you find the culprit.

Chip Pearson has some additional notes to help diagnose this kind of problem at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm
 
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