Try unhiding your personal.xls and closing any other open excel files
change your toolbars, make a change to your personal.xls, save your personal.xls
Close Excel, Open Excel, hide your personal.xls

When you reopened Excel were the toolbars fixed.

BTW,
Did Alt+V, Alt+U fix your current view
you said it was the default you wanted fixed, but did that fix
your current view.

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"needyourhelp" wrote in message ...
Maybe I mistated my issue...

Something has chaged about the DEFAULT behavior of my excel. It now opens
all files with some wierd view that only has the the tool bar at the top
visable.

I know how to make it display the window appropriatly during a session.

What I need to know is how to set the DEFAULT behavior to open into NORMAL
view instead of this wierd view of only the tool bar,

This behavior is not file specific. It happens with all excel files.

I'm stumped.

thanks


"David McRitchie" wrote:

Alt+V, Alt+U


"needyourhelp" wrote in message news:6FC24B5F-52E7-4842-8784-

I figured out how to make it display the data sheet window by selcting View
FULL SCREEN from the tool bar once, then VIEW FULL SCREEN a 2nd time.