removing excell completely

[JAJOSEPHESQ]

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!!!!!

 

[BrianB]

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

 

[Dave Peterson]

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