I think I'd move those hidden workbooks from your alternate startup folder into
your XLStart folder. (maybe even make them addins--if you have another way of
running the macros.)

I didn't test this.

I have book.xlt, sheet.xlt and personal.xla in my XLStart (nothing in the
alternate file location box) and I get a book1 when I start excel.

(xl2k, xl2002, and xl2003)

(and IIRC, xl97 worked that way, too.)



RWN wrote:

Thanks, but It's got me intrigued (means I'm probably going to hurt myself!).
I attempted to download it on my wife's XP m/c and rec'd an error message that it couldn't
install the Active-X component and allowed me to manually download the .cab file and
extract it myself.
I did not receive the message on my w2kPro m/c.

Looking at the w2k m/c I am wondering about an anomaly that I've had for quite some time
but never bothered to fix.
When I open Excel (2k) I get a blank screen and have to hit the "New" button to display a
blank worksheet. I've lived with this for a long time. I *think* it started when I made a
custom "Book" and "Sheet". I've gotten used to it but would like to fix it, thinking that
it may be related to the template download problem(?).
I've gone over the help but to no avail. The Book & Sheet xlt's are in the (default)
XLSTART directory. I have an alternate startup directory as well that has an xls file
(that starts hidden) with my utility macro's in it .
Excel simply refuses to open the "Book" workbook on its own.

Any ideas?

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Regards;
Rob
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"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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It opened in excel directly for me.

It's only about 20k. If you want an emailed version, just share your email
address.

Munge it a little like Gord does with his.

RWN wrote:

That's the one.
Where does it download to? I get a "Downloading message" with a progress bar, but
nothing
saying where it's going.
Then Excel fires up but, at the point it wants to load it, it goes "boom".

As I said, this is the 1st time I've tried this.

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Regards;
Rob
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"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
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Dave/Rob

I found the template at the gallery and it downloaded OK for me.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...977871033.aspx


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:53:51 -0600, Dave Peterson
wrote:

You may want to post the link to the template to make it easier for others to
try it.

And if you only tried it once, try it again. ("If it only happened once, it
didn't really happen" is my general rule with computers!)

RWN wrote:

Off2k(sp-3)/Win2kPro
AVG (free), MSAS (Beta).

Attempted to download a template (Blood Sugar Chart) from MS.
Progressed to the point of initiating Excel then rec'd a "Excel has generated
errors
...close...error log" message.
This is the 1st time I've attempted this.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

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Regards;
Rob
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