Excel keeps toolbar customizations in a file with a name like Excel.XLB in
this folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel

If this file was deleted (with Excel closed) user customizations would
disappear.

Excel always opens in auto calc mode but if the first workbook or template
opened was saved in manual mode it will switch. So it sounds as if maybe
the user's Personal.xls or a startup template was last saved while Excel was
in manual calc mode.

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Jim
"CaymanCarrie" wrote in message
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| One of our users at my company has complained that he has all of a sudden
| lost all customized toolbars in Excel. Is there any reason why this might
| have happened to him, but not to anyone else on the network?
|
| Also, Excel always seems to open up with manual recalculation set rather
| than auto recalc.
|
| Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
|