xl2002+ have the abililty to quarantine what it thinks are bad workbooks.

They can keep track of them so that it doesn't even try to open them.

If you look under Help|About MS Excel, you'll see a button called: "Disabled
Items...".

Check under there to see if it's marked not to open. You can enable it there,
too.

If the workbook is really bad, you'll want to put your backup copy in XLStart.

"C. David Rossen" wrote:

Hello:

For some reason, when I start Excel, the file personal.xls does not open
anymore, not even hidden. I want to be able to save macros to it, but it
does not list that as an option anymore. The file that opens is Book1.
Personal.xls is in the xlstart directory. Thanks.

David

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Dave Peterson