Hello Excellers and welcome to another #MacroMonday #Excel blog post in my 2020 Excel and macro series. Today let’s look at removing your Personal Macro Workbook from Excel.
This workbook will be named personal.xlsb in Excel versions >2007 and if you have a version of Excel prior to 2007 then the workbook will be called personal.xls.
If you don’t need or use the workbook then you can just delete it. There are a few steps to it so just follow along.
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Remove Your Personal Macro Workbook
The file is in a specific location. It is is the XLSTART folder. This can be in a few locations, but first you may need to see hidden files and folders on your machine, if this is the case then follow the steps below (Windows 8, Windows 10).
- Windows Explorer
- View
- Show/Hide Group
- Tick Hidden Items – if not already selected
Once you have enabled Hidden Items then you can proceed to finding the file and deleting it. Navigate to the following folder in Windows 8
C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART\PERSONAL.XLSB
If you are using Windows XP you need to navigate to the following location
C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART\PERSONAL.XLSB
Once you have located the file then just delete it. It will not load again once you restart Excel. You can now begin again with a new Personal Macro Workbook by recording a new Excel macro.
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