Excel 2000, personal.xlsb?

[PurchaseGuy]

Recently I was given access to a company laptop with Office 2000 on it to do
catch up work. I upgraded the office copy on that laptop to Office 2007,
then when I was caught up I uninstalled Office 2007, ran a registry cleaner,
then re-installed Office 2000.

Now, when I open excel it gives me: "This file is not in a recognizable
format." if I hit OK to procede it then opens up a file that appears to be
gibberish with the filename: personal.xlsb

How do I fix this?

 

[Sheeloo]

Close Excel
Go to
C:\Documents
and Settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLStart folder
after replacing user name with your user name
delete personal.xlsb

If it is not there then search for the file and delete it.

 

[PurchaseGuy]

Thank you Very Much!

That fixed it!

Close Excel
Go to
C:\Documents
and Settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLStart folder
after replacing user name with your user name
delete personal.xlsb

If it is not there then search for the file and delete it.