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.

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Possible answer from a Google search?

gsgordon | | Permalink

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.

Thank you very much.

chatman | | Permalink

What exactly did you Google? I tried Google but did not come up with anything helpful. 

You can get lucky!

gsgordon | | Permalink

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

Anonymous | | Permalink

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.

chatman | | Permalink

Thanks to both of you, and to gsgordon for the search and assistance tips.