This sounds like the makings of an article Linda. /g -----Original Message----- From: Linda F. Johnson [mailto:linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 If you have made templates, search your hard drive for *.xlt and back up all of them And yes, definitely back up personal.xls Toolbar files have an xlb extension, so search your hard drive for *.xlb and back them up also. Autocorrect files have an acl extension so search your hard drive for *.acl and back them up too And, if you have anything in your XLStart folder, you might want to back that up also...search your hard drive for XLStart and back up the whole folder...of course, if you have shortcuts in there to launch addins when Excel starts, you would also have to reinstall the addins if you had to reinstall Excel. ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************