Thank you Frank but I actually did do that already and it still will not open
as a hidden file when I start Excel. Do you know of a setting that I have to
activate to get it to work? By the way, I also have two other accounts,
Default User, All Users and Administrator. Should I copy it into the XLSTART
folder on all these accounts? Please let me know. Thanks!!!!!

"Frank Kabel" wrote:

Hi
try:
- put personal.xls in your XLStart folder
- after openening Excel activate this file and use 'Windowsd - Hide' to
hide it
- close Excel and start it again

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

"Claudia_R" schrieb im
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I have Excel 2000 (9.0.7616 SP-3) on a laptop that has Windows XP and
whenever I try to run a macro (saved on my personal.xls worksheet) it
shows
that my worksheet will not open as a hidden file when I open Excel.
I have
used another version of Excel on a PC running Windows 2000 and Excel
2000
(9.0.4402 SR-2) and whenever I open Excel my Personal.xls file is
opened in
the background. Is there a way that I can fix my Laptop to do the
same? Any
help would be much appreciated