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Excel toolbar customization
I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this
new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. |
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Excel toolbar customization
Customized changes to to menus and toolbars are saved in Excel11.xlb
Usual path is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel Your path may differ Maybe you don't have permission to save to that folder Search for Excell11.xlb using Windows search. When found, re-name to Excel11.OLD Restart Excel and make some changes. Excel will create a new *.xlb file Double-click to open it. Does this one have your changes? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:04:00 -0700, Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. |
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Excel toolbar customization
Thanks for the reply. Interesting. I have no xlb file on this machine at all.
"Gord Dibben" wrote: Customized changes to to menus and toolbars are saved in Excel11.xlb Usual path is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel Your path may differ Maybe you don't have permission to save to that folder Search for Excell11.xlb using Windows search. When found, re-name to Excel11.OLD Restart Excel and make some changes. Excel will create a new *.xlb file Double-click to open it. Does this one have your changes? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:04:00 -0700, Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. |
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Excel toolbar customization
You must have one.
In My ComputerToolsFolder OptionsView do you have "hide extensions for known file types" checkmarked. Uncheck and try a search for *.xlb Gord On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:51:03 -0700, Griffinspc wrote: Thanks for the reply. Interesting. I have no xlb file on this machine at all. "Gord Dibben" wrote: Customized changes to to menus and toolbars are saved in Excel11.xlb Usual path is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel Your path may differ Maybe you don't have permission to save to that folder Search for Excell11.xlb using Windows search. When found, re-name to Excel11.OLD Restart Excel and make some changes. Excel will create a new *.xlb file Double-click to open it. Does this one have your changes? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:04:00 -0700, Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. |
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Excel toolbar customization
I do have one. Weird when searching for either the full name or *.xlb it
doesn't find it but navigating to it does so with that I renamed it OLD and made some obvious changes and closed Excel. I waited and opened it and had a brief glimpse of my changes; Close and Save As in text so it would be easy to spot and then the Toolbar flashed and went back to the default. But if I open the new Excel11.xlb file it has my changes. Color me stumped. "Gord Dibben" wrote: You must have one. In My ComputerToolsFolder OptionsView do you have "hide extensions for known file types" checkmarked. Uncheck and try a search for *.xlb Gord On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:51:03 -0700, Griffinspc wrote: Thanks for the reply. Interesting. I have no xlb file on this machine at all. "Gord Dibben" wrote: Customized changes to to menus and toolbars are saved in Excel11.xlb Usual path is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel Your path may differ Maybe you don't have permission to save to that folder Search for Excell11.xlb using Windows search. When found, re-name to Excel11.OLD Restart Excel and make some changes. Excel will create a new *.xlb file Double-click to open it. Does this one have your changes? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:04:00 -0700, Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. |
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Excel toolbar customization
You haven't found all of them yet.
Maybe this will help: Close excel Windows Start button|Run type: CMD (to get to the Command prompt) C: (to get to the C: drive--change this to the drive that excel is installed on) cd\ (to get to the root directory) dir *.xlb /s The /s says to search subfolders, too. Make a note of the locations of the found files and then delete those files. Then try modifying your toolbar again, close excel and reopen to see if the changes are still there. Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. -- Dave Peterson |
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Only one found in the command line search in the same location. I deleted it
again and made a few changes to the toolbar, closed excel. checked the xlb file and the toolbar shows my changes. Closed it and opened Excel and no changes. It seemed logical that there was a 2nd xbl file but no luck. So where is my Excel pointing? Would it do me any good to uninstall Excel and reinstall or is this a registry issue so the new install will be looking at the same file? I've had to delete the normal.dot file before in Word and had noting like this happen. "Dave Peterson" wrote: You haven't found all of them yet. Maybe this will help: Close excel Windows Start button|Run type: CMD (to get to the Command prompt) C: (to get to the C: drive--change this to the drive that excel is installed on) cd\ (to get to the root directory) dir *.xlb /s The /s says to search subfolders, too. Make a note of the locations of the found files and then delete those files. Then try modifying your toolbar again, close excel and reopen to see if the changes are still there. Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. -- Dave Peterson |
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Excel toolbar customization
Strange doin's
Maybe a permissions issue? Before a re-install of Office try a re-register of Excel. Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar 1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK. 2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. See the space between exe and /regserver You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe. In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes required)OK. Have your CD ready just in case you are asked for it. Gord On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:15:02 -0700, Griffinspc wrote: Only one found in the command line search in the same location. I deleted it again and made a few changes to the toolbar, closed excel. checked the xlb file and the toolbar shows my changes. Closed it and opened Excel and no changes. It seemed logical that there was a 2nd xbl file but no luck. So where is my Excel pointing? Would it do me any good to uninstall Excel and reinstall or is this a registry issue so the new install will be looking at the same file? I've had to delete the normal.dot file before in Word and had noting like this happen. "Dave Peterson" wrote: You haven't found all of them yet. Maybe this will help: Close excel Windows Start button|Run type: CMD (to get to the Command prompt) C: (to get to the C: drive--change this to the drive that excel is installed on) cd\ (to get to the root directory) dir *.xlb /s The /s says to search subfolders, too. Make a note of the locations of the found files and then delete those files. Then try modifying your toolbar again, close excel and reopen to see if the changes are still there. Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. -- Dave Peterson |
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Reinstalling excel won't help.
*.xlb is one of the files that excel knows not to destroy when you uninstall/reinstall. I'm betting that you still haven't found all of them yet. Search again and delete the ones you find. But then use windows search for a folder named XLStart (depending on your upgrade path, you may have multiple XLStart folders, too!). Then open those folders to see if you have *.xlb files in any of those. Griffinspc wrote: Only one found in the command line search in the same location. I deleted it again and made a few changes to the toolbar, closed excel. checked the xlb file and the toolbar shows my changes. Closed it and opened Excel and no changes. It seemed logical that there was a 2nd xbl file but no luck. So where is my Excel pointing? Would it do me any good to uninstall Excel and reinstall or is this a registry issue so the new install will be looking at the same file? I've had to delete the normal.dot file before in Word and had noting like this happen. "Dave Peterson" wrote: You haven't found all of them yet. Maybe this will help: Close excel Windows Start button|Run type: CMD (to get to the Command prompt) C: (to get to the C: drive--change this to the drive that excel is installed on) cd\ (to get to the root directory) dir *.xlb /s The /s says to search subfolders, too. Make a note of the locations of the found files and then delete those files. Then try modifying your toolbar again, close excel and reopen to see if the changes are still there. Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Excel toolbar customization
OK, tried both Gord's and Dave's last suggestions. No luck with either. It
seems weirder and weirder. I found one other XLSTART folder but it was empty and I'm obviously stumped. "Dave Peterson" wrote: Reinstalling excel won't help. *.xlb is one of the files that excel knows not to destroy when you uninstall/reinstall. I'm betting that you still haven't found all of them yet. Search again and delete the ones you find. But then use windows search for a folder named XLStart (depending on your upgrade path, you may have multiple XLStart folders, too!). Then open those folders to see if you have *.xlb files in any of those. Griffinspc wrote: Only one found in the command line search in the same location. I deleted it again and made a few changes to the toolbar, closed excel. checked the xlb file and the toolbar shows my changes. Closed it and opened Excel and no changes. It seemed logical that there was a 2nd xbl file but no luck. So where is my Excel pointing? Would it do me any good to uninstall Excel and reinstall or is this a registry issue so the new install will be looking at the same file? I've had to delete the normal.dot file before in Word and had noting like this happen. "Dave Peterson" wrote: You haven't found all of them yet. Maybe this will help: Close excel Windows Start button|Run type: CMD (to get to the Command prompt) C: (to get to the C: drive--change this to the drive that excel is installed on) cd\ (to get to the root directory) dir *.xlb /s The /s says to search subfolders, too. Make a note of the locations of the found files and then delete those files. Then try modifying your toolbar again, close excel and reopen to see if the changes are still there. Griffinspc wrote: I have modified my Excel toolbars many times with no problem however on this new machine at work with Office 2003 and all service packs, etc., the changes I make are not retained when i close and open Excel. I've tried the Detect & Repair and looked for any Office updates and all are current. Help. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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