That would be great - thanks very much

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Cheers
Nigel



"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Nigel,

It would be simple and you could put the code in Personal.xls or an
add-in,
so that it fires and checks the status when Excel opens normally.

Want me to knock you up a simple add-in that does it (you do know about
installing add-ins I presume)?

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HTH

RP
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"Nigel" wrote in message
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Bob, thanks for the tip. The problem is not with my application, that
restores itself, the issue is with opening XL 'normally' so unless the I
store some code that will always run I am a bit snookered! Suppose it
code
be in the XL start up directory, but the macro security might get in the
way? I had thought of using the registry but I think that might be
even
more difficult?

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Cheers
Nigel



"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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"Nigel" wrote in message
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I still have a potential problem(?) with the CommandBars
collection -
I
actually disable all standard xl menus, command bars and popups.
Re-enabliing these on the way out - is this status stored in the
XLB?
If
it
is then a power loss or other system crash will result in a user
interface
corruption.

You could save the details to a text file, and the next time the
workbook
is
opened, check if the text file exists, if so, open, read, and restore
the
commandbars.