Exporting to excel from desktop creates blank workbook

About 10 days ago, this started.  When I export any report from any company books to excel as a new worksheet in a new file (I haven't tested other situations yet), it always starts a blank workbook in excel that I  have to say "don't save". Then the exported data that I want appears correctly in a new workbook.  Excel does not start a blank workbook when started on its own, or when exporting from any other program.  Mostly this is just annoying, but sometimes I have to bring the excel instance forward in task manager to find it so I can "don't save" the blank workbook.

Qkbks and MS Office have both been reinstalled and fully updated.  No change.