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Copper Contributor

Apr 03, 2020

.xls files are opening at corner of the screen mac os

Hello I have this problem for a long time but haven't paid attention to it. I am tired of getting all xls files opening at the corner. I tried saving it in other locations of the screens, it didn't ...

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ramgo89

Copper Contributor

Apr 16, 2020

lama-jama

I had the same issue - Try the following - on the Menu, Click "Window" -> New Window

The same file will open in a new window, move that window around to the center and save it and close the older window. On re-opening, this particular files opens in the center again. Unfortunately though. every other ".xls" file still opens in the corner.

Steve_K_Excel

Iron Contributor

Apr 16, 2020

ramgo89 Are the XLS files being created by some other version of Excel or some other application/system? It seems that the window size and position information saved in the file is not correct, so it's important to identify how the files are getting into that state. Since the files open properly after adjusting the position of the window and then saving the file on your computer, the problem may be happening when the files are created/saved on another computer.