Missing Personal.xls in Office 2003 Upgrade
 

Im upgrading my company from Office 2000 to Office 2003 and have people
losing their Macros or Personal.xls files does anyone have a clue as to why
this may happen?

Thanks,
-CC

Excel is usually pretty smart to find any XLStart that was supported in previous
versions.

But for some reason, it's having trouble with your upgrade (I don't have a guess
why).

But if you can find that personal.xls, you could move them to the folder that
xl2003 will find.

I'd use windows start button|search
to look for personal.xl* (could be personal.xls or personal.xla)

Make a note of that location.

Start excel.
hit alt-f11 (to get to the VBE)
hit ctrl-g (to see the immediate window)
type this and hit enter:
?application.startuppath
For me (winXP and xl2003), I get:
C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

Then close excel.

Now go back to the location of the personal.xl* file and cut it. Paste it into
that XLStart folder.

And restart excel to test it.


Cheryl Carling wrote:

Im upgrading my company from Office 2000 to Office 2003 and have people
losing their Macros or Personal.xls files does anyone have a clue as to why
this may happen?

Thanks,
-CC

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Dave Peterson

Macros can live in Workbooks, Add-ins or Personal.xls.

These must generally be transferred over when upgrading.

Find Personal.xls on the old setup and place it in the XLSTART folder of the
new setup.

I know, the Office installation "should" take of things like this, but does
not occur too regularly.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:40:06 -0700, "Cheryl Carling" <Cheryl
wrote:

I’m upgrading my company from Office 2000 to Office 2003 and have people
losing their Macros or Personal.xls files does anyone have a clue as to why
this may happen?

Thanks,
-CC

Thanks Dave and Gord for getting back to me. We did search the hard drive
and came up with nothing. I think this is a one of those things where it
will remain a mystery. If we do figure out what happen I will post back.

Thanks again,
-CC


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Macros can live in Workbooks, Add-ins or Personal.xls.

These must generally be transferred over when upgrading.

Find Personal.xls on the old setup and place it in the XLSTART folder of the
new setup.

I know, the Office installation "should" take of things like this, but does
not occur too regularly.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:40:06 -0700, "Cheryl Carling" <Cheryl
wrote:

Im upgrading my company from Office 2000 to Office 2003 and have people
losing their Macros or Personal.xls files does anyone have a clue as to why
this may happen?

Thanks,
-CC