If you're going to reset excel back to factory defaults, then I would think that
a lot of those settings would be kept in the windows registry.

You may want to try this (I wouldn't do it, 'cause I'm chicken!):

Windows start button|Run
type: Regedit (and hit enter)

Travers to
HKEY_Current_User\software\microsoft\office\10.0
and rename the Excel branch to something else (ExcelSave -- maybe???).

Just in case you screw things up so bad that stuff won't work. You can always
rename the key when you're done.

Then
windows start button|Run
excel /regserver
(and hit enter to reregister excel)

Then test excel to see if you're happy--be aware that the stuff kept in files
(like *.xlb) won't be affected by this stuff--so you had to struggle with the
*.xlb separately.

If it doesn't work, delete the new key and rename the old one back to Excel.

If it does work, then delete that saved key.



"Phil M." wrote:

wrote:

Peo, I think it'll only get created if you modify a toolbar--but I
could be remembering wrong.

That's it! I was doing a search on my laptop at home. The toolbars were not
modified, so the xlb file did not exist. I moved them around, closed excel,
then the Excel10.xlb file appeard. I renamed it, opened Excel, then the
toolbars were back to their default position. Having done all that, it
still is not absolutely first-run condition. There are still some things
that are based on the user having opened Excel before. Maybe Office XP
needs to be reset somehow? Thanks.

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Phil M.

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Dave Peterson