Macros - Peronal workbook

L

Louise

Hi all

A colleague of mine has created a macro but rather than saving it into the
current workbook has saved it to the personal macro workbook.

It now says that the personal workbook is hidden. We have tried to delete
the macro and it says it cannot find thie hidden workbook.

How can I delete this macro and close the personal macro workbook???

THank you.

Louise
 
M

Michael

Hi Louise. Have you tried going to Windows menu and unhide. This should
allow you to access the Personal workbook.
 
L

Louise

Michael
No I haven't actually, I will try that. Once I find it though, how do I
get rid of it to stop it from opening each time I open Excel? I remember
somebody doing this once before and it caused us endless problems.

Thanks again.
Louise
 
P

penri0_0

If it is just the one general purpose macro you have stored in th
Personal workbook then go to your XLStart folder which will be unde
the Microsoft Office folder on your hard drive and delete the workboo
from there. Any macros attached to individual workbooks shouldn't b
affected.

That would be my suggestion, but as my signature says i'd possibly ge
a second opinion :
 
B

broro183

Hi Louise,

This is just an expansion on Penri's answer as he/she has hit it bang
on the button - it may may it quicker than searching for the XLstart
folder:

* To close the personal.xls file & learn where it is stored (for
deletion):
Follow Penri's suggestion of unhiding [alt + w + u], check the
File-Properties (ie [alt + f + i]), choose the "General" tab, read/copy
the "location", close the file, go to the location & delete file if
desired.

Just out of curiosity, what sort of "endless problems" did you
experience?

hth
Rob Brockett
NZ
Always learning & the best way to learn is to experience...
 
L

Louise

THank yo for your reply.
The problem last time was every time Excel was opened, the personal workbook
was opened too by default, rather than just Book1, so we always had to close
it before we started to use Excel.

Louise
 
B

broro183

Hi,
Pleased we could help :)
Penri, I thought you were a he but didn't want to offend - the record
is all good.

Rob Brockett
NZ
Always learning & the best way to learn is to experience...
 
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