Excel crashing when opening file

When trying to open an excel workbook I get the standard Microsoft Excel has stopped working... and it crashes.

If I open excel first (on a blank document) I can click on workbooks to open them or browse to them and open them. Both work fine.

This issue occurs with both 2010 and 2013 (I have uninstalled and reinstalled both). I have launched Excel in safe mode, ran the repair tool, etc. Short of reformatting the machine I am all out of ideas.

If anyone has resolved this issue I would appreciate some assistance.

Thanks!

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The way I solved this was:

1.- I tried to remove the add-ins and did not work 2.-I started EXCEL in safe mode and then I tried to open the files I needed which luckily for me, opened up without problems. 3.- I saved them as XLSM 4.- Re-started excel in normal mode and problem solved. Hope this helps!

I believe the files got corrupted somehow as I was using VBA for others and I might have run a global macro or something similar.

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