You should see if there is some issue saving the change to the registry, or
reading it from the registry when Excel starts up.

The setting is saved he

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\E xcel\Options\DefaultFormat

and the value for 97-2003 is x38, decimal 56.



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| We've deployed Office 2007 on over 150 machines here, and only 1 user
| is having this problem.
|
| I've changed her default save format to the 97-2003 format, and it
| works just fine for the day. At the end of the day, she logs off of
| Windows, and the next day she opens Excel, and sure enough, Excel
| automatically changed the default save format back to 2007. She
| shouldn't have to change that every day. Any suggestions?
|