

This AM I finally trashed the 3 older prefs files from my desktop as part of a routine clean up. The toolbars worked properly and the changes stayed (yay) and Excel worked fine for several days and after restarts, etc. Finally, I went to the Library/Preferences and relocated the .plist and the and the Excel Toolbars(11) files out of the Library/preferences folder to my desktop and then restarted Excel. This was done from the Tools/Customize/Toolbars menu and I had clicked OK, but the changes did not 'stay.' I redid them several times both with SS files open and closed, to no avail. Several days ago, I modified Excel toolbars with additional commands, but not any custom ones, only those commands already avaiaible. I have restarted Excel many times since, restarted the comupter twice, and also did some things with preference files that I can explain also. xls file that I had created several months ago and was not a shared or downloaded file. When it did 'open' files, most were with non-readable characters like HTML often appears in a non-opening program and it would not stop loading files or allow menu access (dimmed) and had to be forced to quit. Desktop was set as the deflaut location for file opening in Excel, and Documents was second. xls files/ All happened to be older files. Current problem: when I try to start Excel it tries to open many documents that were at the beginning of my Documents folder. Recently I had an issue that may have led to the current one. I have used Excel on both Mac and Windows platforms a lot.
