record Personal Macro Workbook

Hi. I cannot record to my personal macro workbook. When I attempt a
recording, an error message "Personal Macro Workbook in the startup folder
must stay open for recording." appears. Help anybody?

is your personal.xls workbook open?

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"John Fitzgerald" <John Fitzgerald@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:B647B68F-8660-46A9-A3FA-8627BC7D9058@microsoft.com...
> Hi. I cannot record to my personal macro workbook. When I attempt a
> recording, an error message "Personal Macro Workbook in the startup folder
> must stay open for recording." appears. Help anybody?

I have no way of knowing. I did a search of 'Personal.xls' which should be
stored in the Program Files->Microsoft Office->Office->Excel->Startup I
think?? with no results returned... I'm confused! I had some handy macros in
that workbook and would hate to think it no longer exists...

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

> is your personal.xls workbook open?
>
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>
> Regards,
> Tom Ogilvy
>
> "John Fitzgerald" <John Fitzgerald@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:B647B68F-8660-46A9-A3FA-8627BC7D9058@microsoft.com...
> > Hi. I cannot record to my personal macro workbook. When I attempt a
> > recording, an error message "Personal Macro Workbook in the startup folder
> > must stay open for recording." appears. Help anybody?
>
>
>

personal.xls is stored in the directory "xlStart" directory. This may
vary by excel version and operating system combination.

for me: (xl2003 on Windows XP Pro)
? workbooks("Personal.xls").FullName
C:\Documents and Settings\OgilvyTW\Application
Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART\PERSONAL.XLS


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"John Fitzgerald" <JohnFitzgerald@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:616D575C-5EF5-4E6D-A7EC-C1730F9FA4EC@microsoft.com...
> I have no way of knowing. I did a search of 'Personal.xls' which should be
> stored in the Program Files->Microsoft Office->Office->Excel->Startup I
> think?? with no results returned... I'm confused! I had some handy macros
in
> that workbook and would hate to think it no longer exists...
>
> "Tom Ogilvy" wrote:
>
> > is your personal.xls workbook open?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tom Ogilvy
> >
> > "John Fitzgerald" <John Fitzgerald@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:B647B68F-8660-46A9-A3FA-8627BC7D9058@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi. I cannot record to my personal macro workbook. When I attempt a
> > > recording, an error message "Personal Macro Workbook in the startup
folder
> > > must stay open for recording." appears. Help anybody?
> >
> >
> >

Maybe it was disabled...

xl2002+ have the abililty to quarantine what it thinks are bad workbooks.

They can keep track of them so that it doesn't even try to open them.

If you look under Help|About MS Excel, you'll see a button called: "Disabled
Items...".

Check under there to see if it's marked not to open. You can enable it there,
too.

If the workbook is really bad, you'll want to put your backup copy in XLStart.



John Fitzgerald wrote:
>
> Hi. I cannot record to my personal macro workbook. When I attempt a
> recording, an error message "Personal Macro Workbook in the startup folder
> must stay open for recording." appears. Help anybody?

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Dave Peterson