Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file personal.xls. How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek

I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file personal.xls. How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek

Whenever I open .xls files from my colleague, there is a personal.xls
appended. I am wondering how to hide personal.xls

"kassie" wrote in message
...
I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you
should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather
than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file personal.xls.
How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek

It now begins to sound as if you are receiving files from someone else. Is
this on a memory stick, on an email, or what?

"Derek" wrote:

Whenever I open .xls files from my colleague, there is a personal.xls
appended. I am wondering how to hide personal.xls

"kassie" wrote in message
...
I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you
should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather
than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file personal.xls.
How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek

Hi Kassie,

All of the files are sent via email. I believe it is the setting of Excel
program because there is no personal.xls attached when I open them in my
desktop. Yet there is personal.xls when I open them in my nokebook.

"kassie" wrote in message
...
It now begins to sound as if you are receiving files from someone else.
Is
this on a memory stick, on an email, or what?

"Derek" wrote:

Whenever I open .xls files from my colleague, there is a personal.xls
appended. I am wondering how to hide personal.xls

"kassie" wrote in message
...
I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you
should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store
application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather
than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file
personal.xls.
How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek

Do you send from your desktop to your notebook, or does your colleague send
to both your laptop and notebook?

"Derek" wrote:

Hi Kassie,

All of the files are sent via email. I believe it is the setting of Excel
program because there is no personal.xls attached when I open them in my
desktop. Yet there is personal.xls when I open them in my nokebook.

"kassie" wrote in message
...
It now begins to sound as if you are receiving files from someone else.
Is
this on a memory stick, on an email, or what?

"Derek" wrote:

Whenever I open .xls files from my colleague, there is a personal.xls
appended. I am wondering how to hide personal.xls

"kassie" wrote in message
...
I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you
should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store
application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather
than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file
personal.xls.
How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek

Derek

The Personal.xls file is on your computer......not sent to you.

It is designed to open when Excel starts(opens) to provide global macros.

You can hide it so's you don't see it and it will be in the background with
your macros available. WindowHide. Close Excel and click "yes" to "do you
want to save changes"

If you don't want it to open at all, remove it from your XLSTART folder usually
found at

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

If you type "personal.xls" in Help you will learn quite a bit about the function
of the file.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:21:31 +0800, "Derek" wrote:

Whenever I open .xls files from my colleague, there is a personal.xls
appended. I am wondering how to hide personal.xls

"kassie" wrote in message
...
I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you
should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather
than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file personal.xls.
How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek

Hi Gord

It appears as if this file is in fact attached to the email, only when sent
to his laptop. This is beyond me. Why would a file be attached when sent by
email to the laptop, but not shen sent to the desktop. It come from the same
colleaugue, from the same server! I also at first thought that it was his
own personal.xls opening unhidden. The solution is, as far as I am
concerned, to just ignore the personal.xls attachment, and to just open the
file he actually wants? Maybe you can be of assistance here!



"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Derek

The Personal.xls file is on your computer......not sent to you.

It is designed to open when Excel starts(opens) to provide global macros.

You can hide it so's you don't see it and it will be in the background with
your macros available. WindowHide. Close Excel and click "yes" to "do you
want to save changes"

If you don't want it to open at all, remove it from your XLSTART folder usually
found at

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

If you type "personal.xls" in Help you will learn quite a bit about the function
of the file.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:21:31 +0800, "Derek" wrote:

Whenever I open .xls files from my colleague, there is a personal.xls
appended. I am wondering how to hide personal.xls

"kassie" wrote in message
...
I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you
should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather
than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file personal.xls.
How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek

kassie

I read OP's follow up to you about Personal.xls being an attachment and was
going to get back.

I had posted that it was OP's own Personal.xls opening, but apparently not.

I don't understand what is happening in this case and why the sender is
attaching the Personal.xls.

I would suggest to Derek(OP) that he contact the sender and find out what the
intent is/was in attaching Personal.xls if indeed that is the case and I'm still
not convinced about that.

Derek, if you're reading this, what happens when you just open Excel and an
existing workbook..........not an email..............from your folder?

Does Personal.xls open also?


Gord

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:32:01 -0700, kassie
wrote:

Hi Gord

It appears as if this file is in fact attached to the email, only when sent
to his laptop. This is beyond me. Why would a file be attached when sent by
email to the laptop, but not shen sent to the desktop. It come from the same
colleaugue, from the same server! I also at first thought that it was his
own personal.xls opening unhidden. The solution is, as far as I am
concerned, to just ignore the personal.xls attachment, and to just open the
file he actually wants? Maybe you can be of assistance here!



"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Derek

The Personal.xls file is on your computer......not sent to you.

It is designed to open when Excel starts(opens) to provide global macros.

You can hide it so's you don't see it and it will be in the background with
your macros available. WindowHide. Close Excel and click "yes" to "do you
want to save changes"

If you don't want it to open at all, remove it from your XLSTART folder usually
found at

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

If you type "personal.xls" in Help you will learn quite a bit about the function
of the file.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:21:31 +0800, "Derek" wrote:

Whenever I open .xls files from my colleague, there is a personal.xls
appended. I am wondering how to hide personal.xls

"kassie" wrote in message
...
I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you
should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather
than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file personal.xls.
How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek