preserving toolbars when re-installing

[Mike Row Soft]

I have to repair (and perhaps re-install) Office 2003. How do I save my
current Word, Excel, and Outlook toolbars, and restore them after the repair
or reinstall?

 

[db614]

Search your profile for the file "normal.dot" (your profile on Windows XP is
located at C:\Documents and Settings\<username> or on Vista or Windows 7 at
C:\Users\<username>).

Make sure that Word is closed, then copy the normal.dot somewhere such as
your desktop. Once Office is removed and re-installed, copy it back to the
same location.

 

[Mike Row Soft]

That's for Word, right? What about Excel? Doesn't Excel have its own
toolbar file somewhere? And Outlook?

 

[db614]

excel11.xlb and outcmd.dat. for Outlook, may be better to copy back the whole
Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder

 

[Mike Row Soft]

I found normal.doc in My Documents. I found normal.dot in Templates. Do I
copy back both of these?

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Won't hurt to do both--