Mac Office Excel opens several spreadsheets at once

Couldn't see anywhere else to post this question;
I have Office for Mac. When I launch Excel it automatically opens several spreadsheets at once. Is there a way to stop this ?

This is a very frustrating problem. Web searches lead most ppl to assume that it is...
1) It is an issue with OS X ->System Preferences->General->Restore Windows when quitting...
2) It is an issue with MS Excel->Preferences->General->At startup, open all file in...
If the issue persists, check the following for the following folder
/Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Excel
More than likely, the worksheets that keep automatically opening will be here. Copy these files to another location and DELETE them from this folder.

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that was meant to open come up.
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Put a copy of the file in the hard drive level Users/Shared folder.
Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one.
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successfully.
If the 2nd or any other Workbook in my app tries to execute an "open workbook" procedure of its own, no Err is thrown
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is this a MAC Excel limitation only, or is there a MAC Excel or VBA setting that solves this situation? I have done VBA
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I am openinfg all my Workbooks with ReadOnly:= false
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Angoose McGoose wrote:
okey, u want me 2 prove it?
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(Sorry, can't include images yet, I am not a VERIFIED USER of this forum yet.)
I went into VBE's menu: Tools>References and check for anything marked MISSING, which I deselected. But I am still receiving this error.
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Opening these spreadsheets displays this error:
Compile error:
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