Hi Derek, sorry about all the questions. Hope this is the last lot though!

You say when you open the file, the personal.xls is there.

Do you mean that
When you receive the email on your laptop, it shows that personal.xls is
attached, as well as the file you actually want, but when downloading to your
desktop it is not on the email as an attachment.
- Or -
When you download to either machine, the personal.xls is attached as part of
the email.
- Or -
While personal.xls is not attached to either of the actual emails, it opens
when you open the file on your laptop.

"Derek" wrote:

I receive the files from my company server. Sometimes I use my destop while
I use notebook when travelling.

"kassie" wrote in message
...
Do you send from your desktop to your notebook, or does your colleague
send
to both your laptop and notebook?

"Derek" wrote:

Hi Kassie,

All of the files are sent via email. I believe it is the setting of Excel
program because there is no personal.xls attached when I open them in my
desktop. Yet there is personal.xls when I open them in my nokebook.

"kassie" wrote in message
...
It now begins to sound as if you are receiving files from someone else.
Is
this on a memory stick, on an email, or what?

"Derek" wrote:

Whenever I open .xls files from my colleague, there is a personal.xls
appended. I am wondering how to hide personal.xls

"kassie" wrote in message
...
I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe
you
should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store
application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets,
rather
than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file
personal.xls.
How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek