Excel customisations

If you have saved macros or customised your toolbar within Excel they will not transfer to your new machine. However, Excel templates are stored in the same place as Word templates, see the Word Templates, Autotext and Customisation page for instructions on how to copy templates.

Before the move

• Right click on the start button and choose explore
• Expand the documents and settings folder on the C: drive
• Locate and expand the folder with your userid (this should be the username you log into the machine with)
• Expand the application data folder
• Expand the Microsoft folder
• Expand the Excel folder
• Click on the XLSTART folder and copy the personal file
• Paste this into your F: drive folder

After the move

• Right click on the start button and choose explore
• Expand your F: drive and locate the personal folder that you copied
• Copy this folder
• Expand the documents and settings folder on the C: drive
• Locate and expand the folder with your userid
• Expand the application data folder
• Expand the Microsoft folder
• Expand the Excel folder
• Click on the XLSTART folder and copy the personal folder back in to this folder