how is excel 2007 finding my personal.xls file?

rrvball

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Excel 2007 is automatically opening my personal.xls file (not personal.xlsb). The "At startup, open all files in:" box in options : Advanced is empty. The personal.xls file is NOT in the xlstart folder nor is it in the "Default file location" as specified in options : Save.

I upgraded from 2003 and somehow 2007 knows where to find my personal.xls file and opens it automatically, but I can't find out how? I searched the registry for personal.xls and only found it in Excel's MRU list and under the search assistant.

I've searched the web and found no answers, but did find a few sites on converting your personal.xls file to a personal.xlsb file which they seemed to think was necessary for it to work in Excel 2007, but I haven't done that and mine still is being opened automagically without errors.

Anybody have any ideas?
 

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