From: "John Beamish" 

Didn't we have a similar issue here before?  It turned out there's a
setting that prevented one from writing to a hard drive?  Something like
that.

Anyway ... is it just the settings or is the data in the spreadsheet reverting, too?

"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:b09185.4b7183{at}harborwebs.com...
> 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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