Comments on: Disabling Macros on Startup

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:43:00 +0000

Hi.

I need your help, i need to disable an userform from other workbook, the userform is shown with a Private Sub in "Thisworbook":

Private Sub Workbook_Open()

My macro stops when useform appear, so i've to close it for continue the procedure...

I hope that you can help me.

Ooooo, another thing, can i to copy modules with macros?

Tks...

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Whoops,

Forgot to mention in that code snippet I posted above. . .

1/ pSheetname is not the name as it appears on the sheet tab in the Excel Window. Instead, it is the VBA name shown in the Project Explorer Window in the VBA screen, which you can change in the Properties Window, also in the VBA screen.

2/ If you use this at work, there may be a firewall that will disallow this code. The worst I experienced was a firewall deleting all the modules in a Workbook when I tried to save it. If you send an Excel file containing code that uses the reference to "Microsoft Visual Basic For Applications Extensibility 5.3? as an attachment to an email, the attachment may be stripped from the email be Outlook.

It varies, but happily, 2007 gives you a way to say the code is trustworthy. Go to the Excel Options dialog box, by clicking on Office - Excel Options - Trust Center - Trust Center Settings, and under "Developer Macro Settings", tick the checkbox labelled "Trust access to the VBA project object model".

Good luck.

Nick.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:27:00 +0000

Try this.

First, make a reference to "Microsoft Visual Basic For Applications Extensibility 5.3?

Then put the following sub into a standard module:

'------------------------------------------------
Public Sub RemoveVBA(pSheetname As String)
With Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject
With .VBComponents(pSheetname).CodeModule
.DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines
End With
End With
End Sub
'------------------------------------------------

Then, after the code that copies the sheet, call the above sub, passing the sheet name of the copy that you want to remove the code from.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:19:00 +0000

i have made a sheet which contain a set of macros...
Now i need a separte copy of sheet with No Macros ..
Please suggest me what to do....It will be so appreciable..

Thanks
Regards
Joe

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:27:00 +0000

Phil, hopefully you have an answer by now, but if not I solved my similar problem by first opening up a different workbook, changing the macro security level to medium(tools/options/security-tab/macro security button),now open the corrupted workbook with macros disabled, now view the code (alt + F11)and look for your problem. Mine was that I had two macros with identical names (I copied and pasted code and forgot to change the name) and it somehow caused the file to corrupt when it was last closed.

Good luck

Ben

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:27:00 +0000

Hi.

I have a wookbook that freezes upon opening. I believe its to do with a line of code I entered (wrongly, probably!) I would like to know how to delete the code without actually opening the workbook, or disable the code upon startup (shift key doesn't work),

Cheers

PHIL

By: Maaron

Maaron — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:46:00 +0000

I'm using automation Excel, i created small program for just reading desired cells,
everyhting works fine, until i use excel file with macro, which is password protected
and when i tried to open this excel file with my program, error message appears:
'Compile error in hidden module: xxx_mod'
and next message:
'The xxx.dll is not present....'

(i suppose Excel tries to initiliaze macro and looks for dll)
but i set HIGH security level for running macros, so i expect, macro should not run

anyway, my program stops on this error and not continue until user action, what is not my expectation

is there any way how to prevent displaying any error message during opening file (which requires user action)
or how i can open such file without 'Compile error'?
(if i open it manually, it opens without any error - if i set high level for macro)

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:51:00 +0000

Just filed a bug with MSFT on Excel 2007: holding the shift key does NOT prevent the auromacros from running!

By: Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:30:00 +0000

Rahul,

Check out this video that demonstrates how to force users to enable macros
http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/flashfiles/forcemacros.html

To see a real file in action, download Andrew's Mastermind game. It forces you to enable macros or it won't open.
http://www.andrewsexceltips.com/Mastermind.zip

By: Tushar Mehta

Tushar Mehta — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:01:00 +0000

Rahul: If code execution is disabled, how do you expect code to detect if it is disabled? But, more important, I doubt that there is anyone, in or outside of Microsoft, who would consider Excel as a secure tool for anything. Well, maybe the versions support IRM but I don’t know enough about that. Other than that, If you have confidential data don’t put them in Excel.