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Excel tries to help by remembering the last settings you used--except for the
first search in that session.
You can use that to your advantage.
You could make a dummy workbook and put it in your xlStart folder. Have a
macro in that workbook that does a find (and sets all the stuff the way you
like). Then closes and gets out of the way.
Option Explicit
Sub auto_open()
'change the settings the way you like
Worksheets(1).Cells.Find What:="", After:=ActiveCell, _
LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False
ThisWorkbook.Close savechanges:=False
End Sub
Notice that excel's VBA doesn't give you an option to change the sheet/workbook
setting.
The workbook opens, does a find (to fix your settings) and then closes to get
out of the way.
But if you do an Edit|Find and change anything, then those changed settings will
be remembered.
If you're new to macros:
Debra Dalgleish has some notes how to implement macros here:
http://www.contextures.com/xlvba01.html
David McRitchie has an intro to macros:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm
Ron de Bruin's intro to macros:
http://www.rondebruin.nl/code.htm
(General, Regular and Standard modules all describe the same thing.)
