The Reviewing toolbar in Excel pops up whenever you open a workbook that has
been emailed from within Excel "for review". There may be other ways to
make this happen too. If you do a File, Properties you'll see the custom
file properties that have been added that triggers this.

You can kill the added file properties manually or run the below macro to do
it.
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Jim Rech
Excel MVP

Sub KillReviewingCustProps()
Dim x As DocumentProperties
Dim Counter As Integer
Set x = ActiveWorkbook.CustomDocumentProperties
For Counter = x.Count To 1 Step -1
If Left(x.Item(Counter).Name, 1) = "_" Then _
x.Item(Counter).Delete
Next
CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False
End Sub



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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Gus" wrote in message
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| In Excel XP, I don't have the "reviewing toolbar" as one of my standard
ones
| when opening the program. However, when I open a file and begin editing
it,
| it appears automatically. Can anyone tell me how to stop it from
appearing
| unless I actually want it to appear? Thank You.