Hi Jim, thanks for your speedy reply...
but that's what I've been trying and my colleagues and it's not working.
we're saving as book.xlt as a template in the xlstart directory but it's not
picking it up whereas if I save an book.xls file in this directory (and say
change the font) then it picks this up...weird..

"Jim Rech" wrote:

BOOK.XLT will work but only if you save using File, Save and changing the
file type to Template. Merely renaming an XLS to XLT will not do it.

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Jim
"MrsMac2000" wrote in message
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| To change the default template - you are supposed to create a book.xlt and
| save in the xlstart folder - however I have found that this doesn't work
and
| that I have to save it as an xls file in the xlstart folder.
| has anyone else had this problem?
| Is it due to being a work account and not a personal pc - the xlstart
folder
| is in
| c:\documents and settings\(your user name)\application
| daat\microsoft\excel\xlstart
|
| it's driving me mad!!!!!!!!!! Microsoft refer to it as being xlt but it
just
| doesn't work!