Hi Wendy,

Did you try repairing Office before uninstalling Excel (Help|Detect & Repair)? Uninstalling & reinstalling is overkill if repairing
works and, if it doesn't, uninstalling & reinstalling is unlikely to improve things.

Excel doesn't have anything equivalent to 'Normal.dot' by default, but user can create their own 'Personal.xls' file for storing
gloabally-accessible macros. Similarly, you cn define a default workbook layout via the creation of a file named 'Book.xlt' and a
default worksheet layout via the creation of a file named 'Sheet.xlt'. As with Word's 'Normal.dot', the location of these files can
be changed by the user.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


"Wendy" wrote in message ...
Hi all,

I am suspecting a corrupted Excel program file on an installation at our
office, so I want to uninstall and install Excel (which is OK, I can do that).

My question is: Is there an equivalent file in Excel to the Word normal.dot
file? (I know that in Word, if it corrupts, and you uninstall Excel, it
doesn't remove this file, so the corruption remains....).


Excel 2003, SP3.

TIA
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Wendy