Mike Fogleman, Esq

After much diagnosis under the auspices of the IT group, the PC was
sent away to be re-built with Windows OS (2000).

And there again, the association of .dwg files and AutoVue was to be
effected.

Then, suffice to say that Excel Hyperlinks had functioned (well) to
open the Autocad files and alright, there was intervention by MS
Office (warning message box) against file containing virus being
harmful to the computer.

That was shortly before the PC was shutdown over the weekend.

PC was bootstrapped on the following week. And there, Excel Hyperlinks
functioned without the intervention of MS Office (warning message
box).

However, the customization of AutoVue via addition of Toolbar Icons
could no longer stick thereof despite that "Keep Changed Settings" was
checked indeed.

That's to say, the additional Toolbar Icons would have disappeared
when Excel Hyperlinks were activated to re-launch a new instance of
AutoVue.

Thank you for bearing with me all this while.

Regards.