personal.xls will not load

[Raza]

Hello-

My personal.xls file was working just fine for a while but now it is not
loading up when I start Excel. The path is:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\XLStart

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Dave Peterson]

xl2002+ has the abililty to quarantine what it thinks are bad workbooks.

They can keep track of them so that it doesn't even try to open them.

If you look under Help|About MS Excel, you'll see a button called: "Disabled
Items...".

Check under there to see if it's marked not to open. You can enable it there,
too.

If the workbook is really bad, you may want to delete that copy and put a copy
of your backup version into your XLStart folder.

(If you don't have a backup, take the time now and create one.)

 

[Raza]

That was it. It was disabled. Is there anyway to avoid that in the future?

-Paul

 

[Dave Peterson]

Not that I know of. Excel looks at the files that get opened and decides
whether it's corrupt or not corrupt.

But it is a good reason to keep backup files of everything important. If excel
marked it as disabled and the file was corrupt enough to never get opened, you
may not be happy.

 

[UncleOli]

Great tip! I was ready to reinstall Excel, but your tip solved my problem
loading personal.xls.

Thank you,
Oli Bautista
04.19.07 22.03 hst

 

[Dave Peterson]

Google is a good friend!

Great tip! I was ready to reinstall Excel, but your tip solved my problem
loading personal.xls.

Thank you,
Oli Bautista
04.19.07 22.03 hst