Excel toolbar customization

Except for looking again, I'm out of suggestions.

Griffinspc wrote:

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.

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