What I want:
- create a custom toolbar with some buttons, attach macros to the
buttons and save the whole thing in an .xls file.
- to be able to use the file with my program (does excel automation),
i.e. programmatically open the file and display the toolbar, but only
when I say so.

What happens: I open a file, create a toolbar, buttons, macros and
save the file, e.g. Toolbars.xls, close Excel. Then whenever I open
Excel with ANY file, the darned thing appears. Attach or no attach -
doesn't matter. When I copy Toolbars.xls to another machine and open
it, the toolbar appears but w/o any buttons. After that this empty
toolbar appears when I open ANY file on that machine.

This behaviour is nonsensical and counterintuitive. I did a similar
thing with Word and it all worked as expected, i.e. I saved macros and
buttons a Toolbars.doc file, then opened it whenever I wanted and
attached it to whichever doc file I wanted on any computer. And it
didn't just show up on its own.

The help file is of no help.

It's Excel 2000/97, but I'll need it with any Excel 97+

Please help!

Thanks

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Igor