Thanks for the input...I'm still looking. I found the *.dot files which were all templates, none of my macros. The word macros were simple find/replace routines which I can reconstruct fairly easily, so they are not my main concern. The excel macros, on the other hand, were pretty involved, and it will be very time consuming to recreate them. I was running windows xp at the time of the meltdown, if that helps at all. I didn't give them distinct names, they were macro1, 2 and so forth. If I knew the file extension they were saved as, I could search on that. Thanks again.