Personal workbook not opening automatically

[Guest]

Hi,

My personal.xls workbook is not automatically opening anymore. I tried
adding the folder in the general tab of the tools\options box in the "open
files in this folder," but for some reason the "xlstart" folder doesn't save.
It only saves up to C:\Documents and Settings\SFM Inc\Application
Data\Microsoft\Excel, and if I type in "\XLSTART" after "\Excel," it
automatically erases the "XLSTART" folder in the address. Is that even how
the personal workbook opens automatically? I don't remember changing
anything that would stop this workbook from opening automatically. Please
advise.

Thanks,
Jason

 

[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.)