Hi Sheila,
It's times like this that you might have wished you'd used first and
lastname and real email addresses for both newsgroup and
email response, but the current widespread lack of such
means no one even bothers looking anymore because of
so many anonymous and bogus email addresses.

Though usually by the time you see such a problem it is too late.

Anyway having backups of your data is very important.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm
which provides some suggestions on what you should be
backing up --- user data, bookmarks, profiles, toolbars,
lists of what you have installed, etc.

If you just upgraded your system, there is a better chance
that you took backups first. Hope so.
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm