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                                                                         1. Launching Excel on Windows Startup   39
                                                                             Click the Start button on Windows taskbar or
                                                                             press Ctrl+Esc to open the Start menu.
                                                                         2.  Choose All Programs➪Microsoft Office to open
                                                                             the submenu.
                                                                         3.  Drag the Microsoft Office Excel 2003 menu item
                                                                             from this submenu to the Startup menu on the
                                                                             All Programs menu.
                                                                         4.  Drop the Microsoft Office Excel 2003 menu
                                                                             item anywhere on the Startup submenu, as
                                                                             shown in Figure 7-5.


















                      • Figure 7-4: Pinning the Microsoft Excel 2003 menu item
                                to the Start menu.

                      Launching Excel on                                • Figure 7-5: Dragging Microsoft Excel 2003 to the
                                                                                  Windows Startup menu.
                      Windows Startup
                                                                        After moving Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to the
                                                                        Windows Startup menu, Windows launches the
                      For you real hardcore Excel users, the only real solu-
                                                                        program every time you start or restart Windows.
                      tion to the Excel launch problem is to have Windows
                      automatically launch Excel for you every time you
                                                                               To stop having Excel launch every time you
                      start your computer! The procedure is easy: All you      start your computer, drag the Microsoft Office
                      have to do is drag the Microsoft Office Excel 2003
                                                                               Excel 2003 item back to its original home on
                      menu item from the Microsoft Office submenu to           the Microsoft Office submenu.
                      the Startup submenu:
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