How to open xls sheet during start-up

[Bobo72]

Hello,

In my company (like in so many others?!), we use an Excel spreadsheet to register hours consumed at various tasks.

Now, people tend to forget to register hours on a daily basis, for which reason too much time and effort is laid into 'reconstructing' days and activities in the past when at last the xls is opened.

A very smart solution to this 'problem' would be an auto-opening of the xls sheet on start-up. But how do I do this? Any ideas are much appreaciated?

Thanx in advance,
Bo / Denmark

 

[Paulreg]

You could add it to the startup folder on each PC.
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
But a better way would be to create a logon script and add it to a Group Policy object thats applied to the Domain or an OU that contains all the users that you want included.
User config/windows settings/scripts/Logon.

 

[markdmac]

Even easier solution, there is a Group Policy for Run these Programs at Login. Just add Excel into there.

FYI too, on the General Tab of Excel Options you can specify a startup folder where any speadsheets in that folder will be automatically opened when Excel starts.

I'd use the two options above together. Only down side for the startup is if the user closes Excel and opens it again it will always first launch that file again.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark