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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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In Win7, this worked for me.
The path I found to delete the files in XLSTART was: C:\Users*USERNAME*\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART
Make sure you close Excel first and then you can delete the files in there (I only had one file in there).
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Thank You.
Yes, I tried the 3 steps & it worked for me.
I am using XL2007in Vista.
Thanks for the suggestion. It too fails to fix matter. Seems to especially stubborn in Excel 2010. Apparently if you open a hidden personal file to load macros, you will never get a maximized Excel on startup in the 2010 version. Guess we wait for the SP1 and see what happens.
sh
I don't think that is true. I have Excel 2010 (64bit) running on a Windows 8 Pro (64bit) laptop. I have verified that I have a Personal.xlsb workbook in my xlStart directory and that it opens when I open Excel from the taskbar by alt-F11 and looking at some of the code in the VBA editor. My Excel starts Maximized every time.
I don't know if this will work for others, but it solved the issue for me:
Open an Excel file. Maximize the window. Holding down the Ctrl key, close the window. In my case, after doing this, all files now open maximized. For good measure, I also opened the program and closed it the same way. Whatever the case, it worked.