I have been experiencing a situation where my tool bar seems to randomly revert back to the default settings. When this happens all user custom buttons/macros disappear and if the setting is 2 rows it reverts back to 1 row. The row change is not a biggie but recreating the custom buttons is.
I am not able to determine what is causing this does anyone have an idea? I am running on Windows XP.
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Excel Tool Bar (Excel 2002)
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 21, 2004 at 9:19 pm #399461Viewing 9 reply threadsAuthorReplies-
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 22, 2004 at 11:33 am #772192Your tool bar customizations are stored in a file named Excel10.xlb. This file sometimes becomes corrupt. You migh try removing or renaming this file, then customize the toolbar again, and see if the modifications stick. You can also see if Pieterse’s Systematic Approach to Behavioral Problems in XL helps.
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 22, 2004 at 11:33 am #772193Your tool bar customizations are stored in a file named Excel10.xlb. This file sometimes becomes corrupt. You migh try removing or renaming this file, then customize the toolbar again, and see if the modifications stick. You can also see if Pieterse’s Systematic Approach to Behavioral Problems in XL helps.
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 22, 2004 at 1:06 pm #772248Check out this post:
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 22, 2004 at 1:06 pm #772249Check out this post:
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 22, 2004 at 3:35 pm #772367Thanks for the input . However here’s some additional info
Recently because of this happening I gave up on recreating the buttons and just run the macros through the menu as needed.
My only change would be to reset the tool bar to 2 lines (cause I like it hat way) and without running macros it will periodically reset itself to 1 line.
BTW – this is occuring on different machines with different people here where I work and we are using stand alone copies of the s/w. -
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AskWoody PlusJanuary 22, 2004 at 11:01 pm #772621It could be a macro that is getting executed automatically when Excel starts up. If so, then Jan Karel’s Post will isolate the culpret. Again, if you put your customizations in a custom tool bar, the macro might not mess with them.
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AskWoody PlusJanuary 22, 2004 at 11:01 pm #772622It could be a macro that is getting executed automatically when Excel starts up. If so, then Jan Karel’s Post will isolate the culpret. Again, if you put your customizations in a custom tool bar, the macro might not mess with them.
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 22, 2004 at 3:35 pm #772368Thanks for the input . However here’s some additional info
Recently because of this happening I gave up on recreating the buttons and just run the macros through the menu as needed.
My only change would be to reset the tool bar to 2 lines (cause I like it hat way) and without running macros it will periodically reset itself to 1 line.
BTW – this is occuring on different machines with different people here where I work and we are using stand alone copies of the s/w.WSTorquemada
AskWoody LoungerJanuary 27, 2004 at 12:50 am #774645I had a similar problem over the summer and posted a question here and got good suggestions. Yet I still had the problem and I started the “make one change and find the file” game to spot *where* Excel’s .xlb file was located. In my particular environment, there were a few .xlb spots around. I noted that in my case there was >>no<< …10.xlb-named file. So I named it myself. I fiddled around with those games and eventually, somehow, Excel started to recall a customized toolbar. But it still loses new customizations. I just don't have time to fiddle with it again, but you might try that approach.
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 27, 2004 at 4:08 pm #774986I am not clear on what you are asking. If you want to know if you can remove toolbars and put others in its place, you can do it one time manually and the setup should stay. If you want to routinely switch back- and forth, you could create a macro to remove the 2 and add the other 2, then have it reverse it when run again. It is the Visible property of the commandbars object.
The macro recorder can give you the objects.
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 27, 2004 at 4:08 pm #774987I am not clear on what you are asking. If you want to know if you can remove toolbars and put others in its place, you can do it one time manually and the setup should stay. If you want to routinely switch back- and forth, you could create a macro to remove the 2 and add the other 2, then have it reverse it when run again. It is the Visible property of the commandbars object.
The macro recorder can give you the objects.
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AskWoody LoungerWSTorquemada
AskWoody LoungerJanuary 27, 2004 at 12:50 am #774646I had a similar problem over the summer and posted a question here and got good suggestions. Yet I still had the problem and I started the “make one change and find the file” game to spot *where* Excel’s .xlb file was located. In my particular environment, there were a few .xlb spots around. I noted that in my case there was >>no<< …10.xlb-named file. So I named it myself. I fiddled around with those games and eventually, somehow, Excel started to recall a customized toolbar. But it still loses new customizations. I just don't have time to fiddle with it again, but you might try that approach.
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