Excel on Mac

[asterroc]

For some bizarre reason, every time I open MS Excel on my Mac, it opens a crap load of other files. If I'm opening Excel by double clicking a file, it opens that file and some 8 other files, some of which are even .rtf and .jpg files, all of which used to be located on the Desktop but have since been deleted. If I open Excel by clicking on the program icon, it opens only those 8 files. It looks like it's trying to restore lost files or something. How the F*CK do I make it stop doing this? There's aboslutely nothing in the Preferences --> General that talks about this.

Comments

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

that's...weird. never happened to me before. could it be a virus?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Um, hello? Mac!

Seriously, there's very few viruses out there for Macs b/c their market share is so much smaller. I never download questionable things, so I also am an unlikely person to get a virus. However, it could theoretically be a macro-based virus, except that I only ever have used Excel files I created, so it would have to have been a macro-based virus in my work PC, where I also use it smartly and don't download random files, so it'd have to be IT's fault that they got hacked, which'd piss me off b/c they have things locked down so frickin' tight I can barely save my own files.

I entirely expect it's some bizarre preference I can't find. I'll try the help file later.