Ahhhh! Thank you Dave. (Sound of hand hitting forehead). I lost my
Personal.xls shortly after installing xl2003. I've never had it since. I
was not aware of feature either. Thanks a million. :)

I was experimenting about the "Bug" (I mean Feature...) of Solver right
after I installed xl2003. If you have a vba library reference to Solver in
Personal.xls, and then have Personal.xls hidden (normally it's hidden), then
the whole thing crashes. I lost my ability to use Personal.xls since then,
and never found a way to get it back. I thought I tried everything.

So, thanks a million for solving that mystery.

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Dana DeLouis
Win XP & Office 2003


"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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Are you saying that your personal.xls doesn't load?

If you've cleaned up all other copies, and the personal.xls doesn't load
(when
it's where it should be), maybe excel disabled it.

Xl2002 added a feature to protect itself if it thought a workbook was
damaged.

Help|about Microsoft Excel
click on the disabled items button and see if personal.xls is there.

If the file is really corrupted, you may have to delete that version and
restore
from a backup.

pcor wrote:

That was a great help....BUT
I did as you suggested and the answer was
C:\Documents and Settings\Computer\Application
Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART
The trouble is that PERSONAL.XLS IS there

Any further help would be appreciated

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