I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but gone)
I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What is
going on?

View / Full Screen perhaps?

Try finding and deleting your *.xlb file which is the toolbar customisation
file

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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"ksj" wrote in message
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I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but
gone)
I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What
is
going on?

have you got any grey showing at the top ? If so right click on this area and
see if it gives you a dropdown list of toolbars
Cheers
peterm

"ksj" wrote:

I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but gone)
I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What is
going on?

Try this link http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;312589
let me know how you go
peterm

"ksj" wrote:

I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but gone)
I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What is
going on?

I did a search for this file and could not find one. I have Office 2003 and
xp. When I log in under my husbands profile the excel menu is there. So
apparently it's somewhere in my user profile. Can I just delete my user
profile somehow and start over?

"Ken Wright" wrote:

View / Full Screen perhaps?

Try finding and deleting your *.xlb file which is the toolbar customisation
file

--
Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-)
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"ksj" wrote in message
...
I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but
gone)
I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What
is
going on?

Windows ExplorerToolsFolder OptionsViewFiles and Folders

Make sure Windows is set to "show hidden files".

But I'll hazard a guess that the *.xlb file is in

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 04:13:04 -0800, ksj wrote:

I did a search for this file and could not find one. I have Office 2003 and
xp. When I log in under my husbands profile the excel menu is there. So
apparently it's somewhere in my user profile. Can I just delete my user
profile somehow and start over?

"Ken Wright" wrote:

View / Full Screen perhaps?

Try finding and deleting your *.xlb file which is the toolbar customisation
file

--
Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"ksj" wrote in message
...
I am not sure if I have opened a corrupt excel file or what but now when I
open my excel there are no menu or tool bars (not hidden from view, but
gone)
I have tried re-installing excel but this did not fix the problem. What
is
going on?