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I have looked extensively, and tried too many things, and nothing works: Excel will not show my custom template when I create a new Excel workbook.
What do I have to do? I have set up the "Default personal templates location" under "Excel Options > Save" and put my ".xltx" file there.
This really should not be this hard...
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Seems to have fixed itself: The "Personal" item finally appeared under "New". I do not understand why that took so long...
I do not have an a "File > New > Personal" option in Excel. There's no "Personal" item.