RE the Vista part, I dabbled with it a bit and had my frustrations trying to
look in C:\Documents and Settings\...

I learned that that path isn't 'real'. It's just there for backward
compatibility or something like that. The real path for user settings is
off of the C:\Users (I think, going from memory).

--
Jim
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| What I need to do is find how I can have a work book open when Excel
| starts in Vista.
| With XP and before this was done by placing the work book in the
| xlStart directory in the users Application Data\Microsoft\Excel
| directory. That path is now locked, as far as I can tell.
|
| Office 2003.
|