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From: rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Froot Loop)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Stop Sheet1 in Excel, suggestion for Program Manager
Message-ID: <8998@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 10 Oct 90 22:00:32 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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Well, I finally got tired of Sheet1 popping up every time I started Excel
without a worksheet filename.

So this afternoon I sat down and worked out a little macro that basically
loads in and hides itself.  I wanted to make it close itself instead, but
I couldn't seem to make it do that.  So I settled for having a little (~1K)
hidden macro sheet instead.

Since the file is so small, I have included a uuencode of it at the end of 
this post.  To use it, uudecode it and put it in your Excel directory.
Then click once on the Excel icon in Program Manager and select 
Properties... from the file menu.  Append  NOSHEET1.XLM to the end of the
command line.

So for my setup I changed
C:\EXCEL\EXCEL.EXE
to
C:\EXCEL\EXCEL.EXE NOSHEET1.XLM

And then select OK.  The next time you double-click on EXCEL, it will come
up without Sheet1 cluttering things up.

(and now the suggestion about Program Manager)

It would be really nice if you could drag a file from File Manager onto
an application icon in Program Manager, and then have that application
start up using the file you dragged in.  You can drag files onto applications
in File Manager, but then you need to have the directory that your
application is in open also.

(random note about the annoying DOS icon for minimized standard apps)

The DOS icon appears to be located in three separate files (not counting
progman.exe):

winoa286.mod
winoa386.mod
winoldap.mod

I'm not sure if it would be possible to have several different copies of
these files around or not - if so, you could write a little batch program
which renames telix.mod (the modified version of winoa386.mod that you've
made which has a new icon in it) to winoa386.mod, and then runs Telix.

Anyone who knows more about icons and other such resources care to comment?

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|    Randy Spangler                    |    The less things change, the    |
|    rspangle@jarthur.claremont.edu    |    more they remain the same      |
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