Excel: Using Learning Microsoft Excel Alters Toolbars

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 4.0, 4.0a

SYMPTOMS

When you exit one of the Introducing Microsoft Excel or Learning Microsoft Excel tutorials, your previous workspace settings are restored. However, the placement of your toolbars may be different when these settings are restored: toolbars that were placed on separate lines in the same docking area will be placed on the same line if one is small enough fit into the other's unused dock space. If you exit and restart Microsoft Excel, this change will be written to the toolbar description file, EXCEL.XLB.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, either undock your smaller toolbars before you run the tutorial, or rename EXCEL.XLB before you exit Microsoft Excel.

To rename EXCEL.XLB:

1. Before you exit Microsoft Excel, switch to File Manager and rename the EXCEL.XLB file (this file should be located in the Windows directory). Rename the file with a filename such as MYTOOL.XLB.

2. Switch to Microsoft Excel.

3. From the File menu, choose Exit.

4. In File Manager, rename MYTOOL.XLB back to EXCEL.XLB and restart Microsoft Excel.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Excel listed above. This problem was corrected in version 5.0 of Microsoft Excel for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

When Microsoft Excel starts the tutorial, your current workspace settings are saved and replaced with default workspace settings. When you exit the tutorial, your previous workspace settings are restored. Your toolbar placement, however, may not be restored correctly.

REFERENCES

"User's Guide 1," version 4.0, page 14