I've recently created macros in Excel that are stored in personal.xls. It
might be because it never happened that I opened two instances of Excel since
I've created these macros (although I doubt it), but every time I open two or
more instances of Excel, I get the message that the personal.xls file is
locked for editing by myself.

Is there a way to go around this or do I have to live with it, considering
that I need the macros to be available in all Excel files I open?

Thanks.