Excel won't open maximized

Anonymous
2010-06-25T12:40:51+00:00

Tried setting the starup icon properties to start maximised. Tried setting registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\Options\Maximized to 0x00000003

All to no avail. I've sen the prob reported on lots fo other forums but it's always the solutions noted aboive that are suggested, and jsut as reported on those forums, they don't resolve the issue with Excel 2010.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-11-08T21:22:49+00:00

    The way that I solved mine was:

    1. unhide the personal w/b
    2. maximize the personal w/b
    3. close the w/b (not Excel)
    4. click File>New>Blank
    5. hold both ALT+Shift
    6. close the w/b (not Excel)
    7. close Excel

    I don't know how and why or if there're steps can be ignore.

    But it worked for me! :D

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-10-26T12:20:35+00:00

    Delete all files in this folder

    C:\Documents and Settings[username]\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

    it is enough to solve the problem.

    for me it worked.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-10-24T13:22:49+00:00

    Grasping at straws here since I don't have 2010, but one thing that works in some applications is to:

    • open,
    • maximize,
    • then hold the Shift key down while clicking the close button.

    Works (usually) for IE (XP and Vista), and has worked for XL2007 on Vista for me

    Worked for XL2007 - thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-08-14T23:25:50+00:00

    No traffic recently on this but this is driving me nuts. The discussion above seems like what appears to be a bigger problem of Excel just not remembering where it was last closed. I don't want to have my window open maximized, I just want it to open where I last closed it. Excel used to do this and now it sort-of does it. It seems like once in a blue moon it will remember and then it gets stuck there. Right now, "stuck there" is about 1/4 size on my second monitor. I'm getting tennis elbow from constantly dragging it back to my main monitor. I've never seen this with anything before Windows 7. I believe it  has occasionally happened with other applications but can't reproduce that right now. It definitely happens on all of the Windows 7 computers that I use on a regular basis.

    Perhaps this is different from the above since I'm not necessarily wanting it to open maximized. If so, pointers would be greatly appreciated, especially by my right elbow!

    Thanks,

        Jim

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