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New development: When I open Excel, it automatically opens 8 files, always the same ones. Some are Excel docs and others are PDF's, which come up as a bunch of code. I get messages for several of them such as "COMMENTARY on the U.docx file format is not valid" How can I stop this?
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I fixed it myself. Under Excel Preferences, there was an item that said
"On Startup, Open..."
That box should have been blank but it showed a directory. I don't know how that got there and I don't know how Excel decided to open only those 8 files out of several hundred but anyway, it's fixed.