From: "Geo." 

do a find across the whole disk looking for that file name, there is
probably a second copy somewhere.

Geo.

"Ellen K"  wrote in message
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> Excel 2000 on W2K Pro.  Suddenly my toolbar customizations are gone.  I
can
> recreate them, but if I then close Excel (yes, after saving a workbook)
and
> reopen it, I see them for a split second and then I'm back to the
defaults.
>
> I found the relevant KB articles and I have an Excel.xlb file under
Documents
> and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel.  I tried
renaming it
> to Excel9.xlb, no joy.  I tried deleting it, recreating the
customizations,
> closing Excel, the file reappears, but on reopening Excel the
customizations
> display the same behavior.
>
> ???

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