Please check where your copy of Excel is located. It needs to be in the /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011 folder. You can get the behavior you describe if you pull the application out of Microsoft Office 2011 folder.
David Pelton
Microsoft, Office for the Macintosh Test Team
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