I deleted all the stuff in my XLStart folder.

I created a new personal.xls and saved it with calculation set to manual (but it
was still visible).

I closed excel and restarted.
tools|options|calculation mode was set to manual.

I hid personal.xls and saved it (calculation still set to manual)
I closed excel and restarted.
tools|options|calculation mode was still set to manual

I created a new book.xlt and saved it in XLStart.

With personal.xls hidden and book.xlt saved in automatic mode:
I closed and restarted excel.
XL opened in automatic mode
book1 was created

With personal.xls hidden and book.xlt saved in manual mode:
I closed and restarted excel.
XL opened in manual mode.
book1 was created

Then I saved personal.xls as visible and with calc set to automatic:

With personal.xls visible and book.xlt saved in automatic mode:
I closed and restarted excel.
XL opened in automatic mode
book1 wasn't created

With personal.xls visible and book.xlt saved in manual mode:
I closed and restarted excel.
XL opened in automatic mode
book1 wasn't created

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I think I got my notes right!

But it looks like it's the combination of how personal.xls and book.xlt are
saved. (all done in xl2003)



Gord Dibben wrote:

Dave

Something I have been testing.......

The calc mode in Personal.xls doesn't set the calc mode for subsequent
workbooks.

I built a Personal.xls and saved it hidden and calc mode at Manual.

Restarted Excel and opened a workbook that had been saved with calc mode in
Automatic.

It opened in Automatic mode.

Unhid Personal.xls and it also was in Automatic mode.

Tested with xl97, 2002 and 2003.

I have been posting for a long time that Personal.xls settings can govern the
calc mode, but doesn't seem to have any effect.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 01 May 2005 12:36:45 -0500, Dave Peterson
wrote:

The workbook template in XLStart should be named book.xlt (not book1.xlt).

When you recreate this template workbook, make sure you save it with calculation
set to automatic.

Do you have a personal.xls workbook in your XLStart folder? If yes, open that
and save it (again with calculation set to automatic).

Excel uses the first workbook it opens in that session to determine how the
calculation mode should be set for that session.

That might be enough to clear up that #1 problem, too.

Brian wrote:

I have used XL97 on Windows 2000 for a long time. Just lately, XL has
changed its behaviour, and I can't work out why. There are 2 problems, but
they didn't start at the same time.

1. If I open XL and then immediately close it again, without doing anything,
it asks me do I want to save the changes to Book1? What changes to Book1?

2. Whenever I start XL, re-calculation is set to manual. This is true even
if I finish the previous session by re-setting the previous spreadsheet to
automatic re-calculation and saving it.

I tried saving different versions of Book1.xlt and in the end I deleted
Book*.xl?. It made no difference.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

--

Dave Peterson