I found a great new way to do this. The classic way is to text-indent -9999 pixels. It seems to me that the search engines, especially Google will be catching on to this method soon enough. I’d rather not be among the few still using this method when the ball drops on it.

I found it here at Mezzoblue. It’s the last one on the page, Shea Image Replacement.

http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/

What style the span to take up all of the space and have the background image. This effectively shoves the text out of view.

Here is the code excerpted from MezzoBlue:

code:
<h3 id="header" title="Revised Image Replacement">
<span></span>Revised Image Replacement
</h3>

/* css */
#header {
width: 329px;
height: 25px;
position: relative;
}
#header span {
background: url(sample-opaque.gif) no-repeat;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}

When you create a macro that you want to use in multiple documents, it creates a new file called personal.xls.

What’s annoying about it, however, is that it now opens personal.xls whenever you open any excel file.

All you have to do to remove it is delete it. Now other settings need to be changed. The trick is locating the file in the first place.

You can often locate it by going to the File > Save As menu and then looking at the path it wants to save it in. It may be that some of the folders in that path are hidden.

On my computer it was located on this path:
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

Once you’ve found the path, open up Windows Explorer and delete it. You’re done.

I hope this helps someone. It annoyed me for weeks before I decided to get rid of it.