Hi, i m dealing with the _auto_file problem in parallels. especially all my files which i want to use in ms office which i run with parallels are changed to some kind of *_auto_file. for example xmls_auto_file. the problem for me is that i can open the xmls file, but i cannot run the included macro, since the macro points to the correct .xmls extention. so my question is how can i change the xmls_auto_file to .xmls ? i searched already for the solution, but i did not find a sufficient answer.. would appreciate any help! kind regards tomtom