Tom

Personal.xls should be hidden (WindowHide, while it is the activeworkbook
and then when you close excel it will ask if you want to save it...answer
yes).

Now excel should open normally. Personal.xls will be open, but hidden, which
is correct

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
HIS


"Tom" wrote in message
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Having Personal.xls *is* handy. But when starting a "new" workbook,
Excel *assumes* I mean "Personal.xls" and opens "it". If I save it as
my new book, it contains my macros from "Personal.xls". And I can't
seem to DELETE all the macros from within the workbook that was
originally "Personal.xls".

I've moved (saved) Personal.xls and deleted it from XLSTART, so Excel
won't open it, while I try to fix my "new" book. I *still* can't.

What's the secret to starting a new workbook? Devoid of macros, or
whatever? Having one lying around called "BLANK.XLS" so Excel won't
assume I mean Personal.xls?

This is driving me crazy. Anyone have any ideas, thoughts,
suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Tom