Excel spreadsheets maximizing when opened

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Excel spreadsheets maximizing when opened

Hi, whenever I open a an excel spreadsheet either from a mail attachment, or downloaded from another application (i.e. excel report), it automatically maximizes the spreadsheet on my screen (fills up the whole screen). I have a very large widescreen monitor and so I have to manually adjust every the spreadsheet. This may not sound like a big deal, but I may open 20-30 spreadsheets a day some time in my job, so pretty annoying process.

Once I adjust the spreadsheet size and save, it will open to the adjusted size every time. It is just new spreadsheets opening for the first time.

Anyone know why excel is defaulting to maximize the file on first time open? I have searched excel preferences and can find nothing.

I don' think it is related to my widescreen, it does this on any monitor.

Would sure love to fix the issue. Thanks in advance.

Excel for Mac V16

MacBook Pro, 16 - inch, 2021. Apple M1 Pro chip, 32 GB.

Ventura osx.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Dec 8, 2023 8:13 AM

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Answer 1

VikingOSX

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Dec 8, 2023 10:28 AM in response to lovemymacwillnevergoback

Excel may be remembering that you saved a document from a maximized setting and stored that in its preferences list. Resize a random Excel spreadsheet to your preferred opening size and save it. Quit Excel. Open another random Excel spreadsheet and see if it remembered your resizing of the last spreadsheet. Otherwise, they may be a setting in Excel's Preferences about opening spreadsheet size.

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Dec 14, 2023 8:39 AM in response to lovemymacwillnevergoback

Thanks for response. Unfortunately have tried that multiple times with no change. Open existing, new, downloaded.. resize them all, save. Open them again, resize save. Any spreadsheet saved, opens the correct size. It's any downloaded or emailed spreadsheet being opened for the first time. Certainly it' as if Excel doesn't have a "remembered" size for these new spreadsheets, but I can't figure out how to set the default size for a previously unopened spreadsheet.

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Excel spreadsheets maximizing when opened

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