Try deleting it or renaming something else. Then record a macro using
personal.xls to create a new one. Then replace with your re-named file.

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"JC" wrote in message
...
Excel has stopped opening my PERSONAL.XLS workbook on startup. It is there
in
the XLSTART folder, and to be sure I have tried re-creating it and then
saving it in the XLSTART folder. It only opens if I click on the file
itself
in windows explorer. Once open, I then hide it, and close Excel stating I
would like to save changes to PERSONAL.xls When I reopen Excel the
workbook
is not open, (as there is no option to unhide the workbook)

Whilst I can quite easily work around this, I'd rather Excel opened it
each
time I start up.

I also tried to add the location of XLSTART to the 'At startup, open all
files in:....' option within ToolsOptionsGeneral but each time I click
on
OK and go back to check, the path is cleared.

What could have caused this? As it always used to work fine. Thanks.