You assigned your macro to a button or an item on a commandbar.

That button/item still pointed to the original workbook--not the .xla.

I think that the easiest thing to do is to assign the macro to the button when
your .xla file opens.

If you want to add an option to the worksheet menu bar, I really like the way
John Walkenbach does it in his menumaker workbook:
http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/tips/tip53.htm

Here's how I do it when I want a toolbar:
http://www.contextures.com/xlToolbar02.html
(from Debra Dalgleish's site)

Brett Smith wrote:

I created a macro that was to sort through records and give two different
formats depending on what was located in column C. When I tried to export
the macro as an xla file so others can use it as an independant macro, it
didn't work as I intended it to. I had to first enable the macro, and
afterwards it looked for the file that I had created the macro on. When I
took the file out of the directory, it gave an error message saying that it
couldn't find the file. How do I configure the macro so that it doesn't try
to look for that file?

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Dave Peterson