Appears that HotKeys have been used, but where in Excel 97?

[Guest]

Hiya,
I have a spreadsheet that has been moved from one PC that was running Excel
97 to another running Excel XP. On the old PC, when the user presses ctrl + A
it resets all of the values in a certain column to zero. There are other
keyboard shortcuts that do odd things as well, but none of them work on the
new PC. I have looked at the old PC and there are no macros or any VBA behind
the spreadsheet. Does anyone have any idea as to how this was done? I would
like to repeat it on the new PC. If I open a new spreadsheet, put some dummy
data into it and press the ctrl + A it selects all rather than behaving the
same way as the previous sheet did.
Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

Don't know how this was done but can be done by recording
a new macro (resetting values to zero) and assigning
ctrl+a as a shortcut key

 

[Guest]

I know how it could be done, thats where I looked in the first place - but
no. There are no warnings about macro security on starting and there is no
vba code in the workbook at all. I am at a loss. Is there a personal.xls for
Excel 97? Thinking about it it cannot be in there, or it would effect ALL
workbooks and it doesn't - just this one! Well confused here

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

Yes, xl97 does have a personal.xls if the user creates it and this would be
a likely place to look for the functionality you describe. Also, any file
in the xlstart directory is loaded when Excel is started, (and thus would
act just like a personal.xls if it were hidden - personal.xls is nothing
more than a hidden workbook in the xlstart directory). Also, you could
have an addin selected which produces this functionality. Look in
Tools=>Addins in you Excel 97 and see what addins are selected.