Excel 2016: double-clicking on a file opens two Excel windows

Anonymous
2015-09-26T17:50:31+00:00

Since I have upgraded from Office 2013 to Office 2016 (from Office 365 Home), I get the following behavior in Excel:

If I double-click on a [shortcut to a] file, Excel starts with two Windows open:

  • one with the requested document
  • one blank window with no document loaded

Any clue?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-26T19:58:37+00:00

    Thanks very much. it worked.

    cheers

    May

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-03-26T19:53:08+00:00

    In my case, it was an Excel add-in named "MySQL for Excel" which is published by Oracle. I discovered this by:

    1. Run Excel
    2. File > Options > Add-ins
    3. Set "Manage" to "COM Add-ins"
    4. Choose Go
    5. Write down which add-ins are selected, uncheck them all, choose OK.
    6. Test if it's fixed.

    In my case, it was fixed, so I repeated the above enabling one at a time until I discovered which add-in was causing the extra window to open.

    I happened to notice that this annoyance started after installing MySQL. Unchecking the COM add-in for MySQL worked for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-22T18:19:16+00:00

    Maybe it is a late post, but in my case, the same problem described in this post was solved by disabling nVidia Desktop Manager. You have to: right click on desktop > select nVidia Desktop Manager > click disable icon > restar computer.

    Maybe there is something similar to AMD users...

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-09T14:09:56+00:00

    Option 1 worked for me.  Thanks.  This was driving me crazy to say the least.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T20:27:38+00:00

    Thanks for the suggestions. I checked all three options, but none worked.

    Once I've disabled MySQL for Excel add-in, no more blank workbook popped up.

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