Comments on: Excel Startup trouble

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:04:00 +0000

You’re welcome!

By: Jim Kobzeff

Jim Kobzeff — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:23:00 +0000

Thank you, Jan; great site.

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 07:35:00 +0000

I suspect the windows protection prevented the application window from resizing indeed. No idea why though. A version difference maybe? I know Excel 2003 for example is more picky when it comes to what can be done when things are protected.

Another thing to note is that I would advise you to move most of the code out of the Thisworkbook module, into a normal module. Some things seem not to work very well from within the Thisworkbook module.

By: Jim Kobzeff

Jim Kobzeff — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:16:00 +0000

Jan,

I found a solution to the problem I posted on April 4, but am wondering if you know why the solution works. In the Open procedure I was Protecting the WB Structure=True Windows=True. By rewriting it to WB Protect Structure=True Windows=False, the program opens. Only a few customers had the problem, but do you (based on this latest information) have any idea why?

Thank you.
Jim Kobzeff

By: James Kobzeff

James Kobzeff — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:25:00 +0000

Glad to, thank you.

THIS WORKBOOK
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Call Read_registry_Value
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
'MAXIMIZES ACTIVE WINDOW
Application.WindowState = xlMaximized
UserForm1.Show
End Sub

USERFORM
Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
Call OpenProgram
End Sub

WORKBOOKOPEN
Sub OpenProgram()
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Call MakeMenuBar [creates my toolbar, then protects WB Structure=True, Windows=True]
Call HideAllToolbars [hides Excel toolbars]
End Sub

USERFORM
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
'OKAY BUTTON
Unload UserForm1
End Sub

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 07:40:00 +0000

Where is the code located? (maybe good to show us some of it)

By: James Kobzeff

James Kobzeff — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 21:38:00 +0000

Given the expertise in this group, I’m hoping someone can identify the problem and suggest a remedy. 2 users of my Excel application (.xls, not add-in) are experiencing a problem at start up. The Window.State = xlMaximized sub in my procedures doesn’t run; leaving the worksheets about the size of a wallet, and without min max capability. Is there something I can do at startup to work around this? Better yet, is anyone aware of a third-party program that might be preventing Excel from running it? Please suggest if you can. Thank you.

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:48:00 +0000

Jan Karel,

Excel looks for that key on startup, whether it exists or not.

Rob

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:20:00 +0000

Rob,

Interesting discovery. So Excel 2003 creates that key at its startup? If not, how on earth did you get at that reg key?

Andrew and Rick: Thanks for the compliments.

By: Rick Teale

Rick Teale — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:26:00 +0000

Great resource. I have not had too many start up problems, but I did have shut down problems. Excel crashed every time I closed it for a while. Turned out my personal.xls workbook was corrupted. I exported all the modules and deleted the file. Then I created a new personal.xls and imported all the modules from the old one and everything works great. No more crashes.