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Excel-Personal.xlstart will not open/start

Martin, Sherrise (WMC) 0 Reputation points
2025-01-15T20:05:07.1+00:00

I have tried all of this and also had IT repair my excel and nothing has worked.

My Personl.xlstart does not open when I open a new excel file. It does not show in my Visual basic-project.

To open the file you may follow these steps in Excel 2016.

 

Navigate to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Protected View.

Uncheck all the 3 options:

 

  • Enable Protected View for Files originating from the Internet.
  • Enable Protected View for Files located in potentially unsafe locations.
  • Enable Protected View for Outlook attachments.

 

Also, click on Privacy Options in the left-hand pane and make sure to uncheck the 4th option Check Microsoft Office documents that are from or link to suspicious Web sites.

 

Save the changes made and close and reopen Excel 2016.

 

Check if the above steps help you to resolve the issue and open your Excel Binary file?

 

If the issue does not resolve, then since your Excel file contains Macro, your query will be best addressed by the Excel IT Pro Forum. For more assistance with this issue you may contact the Excel IT Pro Forum.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=excel

 

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Thank you for your understanding.

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  1. Emi Zhang-MSFT 27,461 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2025-01-16T07:52:01.6233333+00:00

    Hi,

    What is Personl.xlstart? There is no .xlstar file format available in Excel.

    Please refer to this article about "File formats that are supported in Excel":

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/file-formats-that-are-supported-in-excel-0943ff2c-6014-4e8d-aaea-b83d51d46247

    I also suggest you provide a screenshot about the file format so that I can get more accurate solutions to this problem. I’m glad to help and follow up your reply.

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