When I opened Excel this morning, my many macro buttons were gone. The
external data toolbar was not selected, so I re-selected it, but the macro
buttons weren't there. Does anyone know how to get the buttons back, or do I
have to set them up again? Any ideas on why this happened?

I have no idea what happened to them.

But after you recreate them (manual effort???), make sure you make a backup of
the file that holds those customized toolbars.

Close excel
use windows start button|search
to find *.xlb
Search in hidden folders for hidden files, too.

(I'd delete all but the one you just created--check the creation date/time.)

And back that file up to a nice location.

So if, er, when it happens again, you can just take that backup version and
paste it into the correct folder (all with excel closed).

Patti wrote:

When I opened Excel this morning, my many macro buttons were gone. The
external data toolbar was not selected, so I re-selected it, but the macro
buttons weren't there. Does anyone know how to get the buttons back, or do I
have to set them up again? Any ideas on why this happened?

--

Dave Peterson

Thanks -- will do!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I have no idea what happened to them.

But after you recreate them (manual effort???), make sure you make a backup of
the file that holds those customized toolbars.

Close excel
use windows start button|search
to find *.xlb
Search in hidden folders for hidden files, too.

(I'd delete all but the one you just created--check the creation date/time.)

And back that file up to a nice location.

So if, er, when it happens again, you can just take that backup version and
paste it into the correct folder (all with excel closed).

Patti wrote:

When I opened Excel this morning, my many macro buttons were gone. The
external data toolbar was not selected, so I re-selected it, but the macro
buttons weren't there. Does anyone know how to get the buttons back, or do I
have to set them up again? Any ideas on why this happened?

--

Dave Peterson