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Book1 changes itself?
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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 ===== 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 |
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Hmmm. I don't know quite what I did, but the recalculation now comes up
Automatic each time. However, that happened before I tried anything with personal.xls. I tried renaming personal.xls, and it had the effect that when XL opened there was no blank sheet. It still prompts me to save the changes to Book1 if I want, even if I haven't done anything since opening XL. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Have you upgraded to a new version of excel?
If you have, try opening book.xlt and saving it. Then test it out. Brian wrote: Hmmm. I don't know quite what I did, but the recalculation now comes up Automatic each time. However, that happened before I tried anything with personal.xls. I tried renaming personal.xls, and it had the effect that when XL opened there was no blank sheet. It still prompts me to save the changes to Book1 if I want, even if I haven't done anything since opening XL. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... 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 -- Dave Peterson |
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No, it's XL97 and I've never upgraded.
"Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Have you upgraded to a new version of excel? If you have, try opening book.xlt and saving it. Then test it out. Brian wrote: Hmmm. I don't know quite what I did, but the recalculation now comes up Automatic each time. However, that happened before I tried anything with personal.xls. I tried renaming personal.xls, and it had the effect that when XL opened there was no blank sheet. It still prompts me to save the changes to Book1 if I want, even if I haven't done anything since opening XL. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... 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 -- Dave Peterson |
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If you move personal.xls and book.xlt out of your xlstart folder, do you get the
same prompt? If no, put one of them back and restart excel. If that works, put the other back and test it out. === Do you have any worksheet functions in book.xlt? (Like =now() or =today()?) Brian wrote: No, it's XL97 and I've never upgraded. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Have you upgraded to a new version of excel? If you have, try opening book.xlt and saving it. Then test it out. Brian wrote: Hmmm. I don't know quite what I did, but the recalculation now comes up Automatic each time. However, that happened before I tried anything with personal.xls. I tried renaming personal.xls, and it had the effect that when XL opened there was no blank sheet. It still prompts me to save the changes to Book1 if I want, even if I haven't done anything since opening XL. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... 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 -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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I moved book.xlt and personal.xls on to another drive, but it made no
difference. To my knowledge, there's nothing at all in book.xlt. It's supposed to be just a blank sheet. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... If you move personal.xls and book.xlt out of your xlstart folder, do you get the same prompt? If no, put one of them back and restart excel. If that works, put the other back and test it out. === Do you have any worksheet functions in book.xlt? (Like =now() or =today()?) Brian wrote: No, it's XL97 and I've never upgraded. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Have you upgraded to a new version of excel? If you have, try opening book.xlt and saving it. Then test it out. Brian wrote: Hmmm. I don't know quite what I did, but the recalculation now comes up Automatic each time. However, that happened before I tried anything with personal.xls. I tried renaming personal.xls, and it had the effect that when XL opened there was no blank sheet. It still prompts me to save the changes to Book1 if I want, even if I haven't done anything since opening XL. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... 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 -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Maybe you have an addin that changes something.
Chip Pearson has some notes on how to diagnose startup errors at: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm Essentially, you move all of the stuff out of XLStart and you turn off all the addins under Toools|addins. Then you start adding things back one at a time and testing each time to see if the problem is fixed. When you add something back that causes the problem to come back, you'll have to decide what to do with that addin. Brian wrote: I moved book.xlt and personal.xls on to another drive, but it made no difference. To my knowledge, there's nothing at all in book.xlt. It's supposed to be just a blank sheet. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... If you move personal.xls and book.xlt out of your xlstart folder, do you get the same prompt? If no, put one of them back and restart excel. If that works, put the other back and test it out. === Do you have any worksheet functions in book.xlt? (Like =now() or =today()?) Brian wrote: No, it's XL97 and I've never upgraded. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Have you upgraded to a new version of excel? If you have, try opening book.xlt and saving it. Then test it out. Brian wrote: Hmmm. I don't know quite what I did, but the recalculation now comes up Automatic each time. However, that happened before I tried anything with personal.xls. I tried renaming personal.xls, and it had the effect that when XL opened there was no blank sheet. It still prompts me to save the changes to Book1 if I want, even if I haven't done anything since opening XL. "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... 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 -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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