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Aline1908
Copper Contributor
Oct 21, 2019

Problem with personal.xlsb

Hi,

Recently I updated my computer. Then, it became slower to open files, documents.. But my biggest problem is that every Excel file I have is opened as Read Mode only, even the new ones can’t be modified.
That because when I open Excel, a message says more or less : «  PERSONAL.XLSB is locked, your document is in Read Mode » (sorry for the bad translation from French).
Anyway, I can’t work and can’t find C:/Users/Profil etc... where the VBA files that doesn’t work is sais to be.. Can toi help me? I am on an intership where I really need Excel to work on big data bases

2 Replies

  • PReagan's avatar
    PReagan
    Bronze Contributor

    Hello Aline1908,

     

    Give this a try:

    https://easyboard.org/2017/01/12/personal-xlsb-is-locked-for-editing/

  • JKPieterse's avatar
    JKPieterse
    Silver Contributor
    personal.xlsb can be found by typing this in Windows Explorer's address bar and hitting enter:
    %appdata%\microsoft\excel\xlstart
    I would first try to restart your computer, maybe a (hidden) instance of Excel is still open.

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