MS word & excell ghosts

KoNiT

hi,

Funny thing happening on a XP system with both ms word & excel

If you open either word or excel & wait a short period of time (10 sec's), menus will pull down on their own or open a file or set-ups.

Mouse is ok & keyboard appears ok.

I resarted the pc & it hasn't happened since.

Any ideas?

Kali

Pretty odd, could just be a macro somebody added. Check microsofts office update center, perhaps a patch will fix it (http://office.microsoft.com).

joto

About Macro viruses;

[URL=http://]http://antivirus.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.asp[/URL]





QUOTE]Upon opening the document, Word checks it for AutoOpen macro presence. If there is such a macro, Word executes that macro (if it has not been disabled by DisableAutoMacros). Upon file closing, Word executes the AutoClose macro.[/QUOTE]

It's important (seemingly) to update OS with latest SP's first, Then MS Office.
In the "run" box Type "winver" to see latest sp installed.

I suppose it would be simplest to run windows update on computer.[

Kali

windows update won't patch office... you've to run office update