As a follow on to Fred's answer - do you have workbooks in the XLSTART
folder?
These will open every time you start Excel and could be hidden
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Bernard Liengme
Microsoft Excel MVP
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"Shirley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Cannot get this to stay at automatic. Any thoughts why?
>
> New workbook, nothing complicated (b2/b3). I save the document, reopen
> and
> set to recalculate. The next day when I open, it's back to manual.
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> I hate when things weird out.
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