removing excell completely

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I had created some cutome tool bars that were working great for me.
Suddenly one day, they disappeared. I had these custom tool bars
attached to the spreadsheet. When I open the spreadsheet up on a
nother computer, they will appear. I can not get them back nor can I
totally un-install Excell on my main computer. I have gone through
add/remove programs, I have tried to use the Office XP un-install, I
have even used offclean.exe and nothging seems to remove Excell off of
the computer. How in the world can I get Office XP off of my system
as though it never existed or in the alternative, get my custom tool
bars to re-appear. I have a copy of my Excel10.xlb file and I have
placed it in my the appropriate folder, but this still does nothing to
help the situtation. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!
 
The folder for the .xlb file changes with different versions of Exce
and also when there are several users - you might find a folder wit
your user name in the Windows/Profiles ... folder.

To find the right folder I would make a new custom toolbar, clos
Excel, and do a search for .xlb files.

Alternatively I have successfully used an .xlb file from the XLSTAR
folder. It just needs to be a place where Excel can find it naturally
 
For me (win98 and xl2002), my XLStart folder is:
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLStart

but my *.xlb goes into:
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel

If I have a *.xlb in both folders, then xl seems to load the "real" version
from:
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel
then that one gets clobbered by the one in XLStart
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLStart

Tom Ogilvy recently posted these links:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822107&Product=xlw
HOW TO: Use Excel Startup Folders in Excel 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291218&Product=xlw
HOW TO: Use Excel Startup Folders in Excel 2002

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;240150&Product=xlw
HOW TO: Use Excel Startup Folders in Excel 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259926&Product=xlw
XL97: How to Use Excel Startup Folders
 
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