I think it's only the settings.

> 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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