Hi Jim, yes it is very odd, I've just tried it on a colleagues pc and it
works perfectly! Rung our helpdesk and it didn't work for them so I'm stuck!
I've had a look in Program Files but there isn't an XLSTART folder in there
anywhere. The only last thing we could think is that it could be a registry
setting which is why it's working on some PCs and not others...
I'll let you know if we resolve it here at work!
Thanks for your help

"Jim Rech" wrote:

Well that's pretty odd. It _should_ work. Just as an experiment maybe you
could try moving BOOK.XLT to the XLSTART folder Office creates under the
Office installation folder (under Program Files). This folder behaves the
same as your "documents and settings" one except it kicks in for all users
set up on your machine. So this too "should" work<g.

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Jim
"MrsMac2000" wrote in message
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| 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:
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| 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
| ...
| | 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!
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