Lost access to all my macros in personal macro workbook
Windows XP/Excel 2007 recently told me that there was a problem with one of my the macros in my personal macro workbook and now denies me access to any of them. How can I get them back?
I suspect they are still there somewhere, but that the personal macro workbook is not automatically loading when Excel starts.
Thank you very much.
What exactly did you Google? I tried Google but did not come up with anything helpful.
You can get lucky!
Sometimes a verbatim description of your problem works, so I Googled "personal macro workbook is not automatically loading when Excel starts" (no quotes, although it is quoted from your post) and found www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30445352/personalxlsb-does-not-lo.aspx at #7 on the first page.
Other forums, and the first few posts on eggheadcafe, suggested fiddling with the personal.xlsb file but the post I copied sounded more like the solution.
Despite it's unusual appearance, I've found good troubleshooting ideas on the eggheadcafe forum before.
a solution to lost personal file
In the past i've had this problem in various versions.
I got round it by renaming it, moving from it the folder (something like C:\microsoft\excel\xlstart depending on your system configuration) opening it, then exporting all the modules, then closing it
Created a new personal.xl* with the recorder, then importing the modules. Then closied excel saving my newly created personal.xl*
Restarted excel and all my macros were up and running.
Thanks guys.
Thanks to both of you, and to gsgordon for the search and assistance tips.

Possible answer from a Google search?
Try clocking on the Office Button at the top left of the window. Then
at the bottom of the pop-up window, under the recent documents list,
there is a button for Excel options.....click that button. Then on
the left, click on Add-in's. At the bottom of the Add-in page there
is a "Manage" drop down. Select Disabled Items from the "Manage" drop
down and hit GO. If Personal.xlsb appears there, enable it again and
it will startup when Excel starts up.