Comments on: VBA Bug: Macro in Excel Stops After A Workbook.Open Command

By: booke02

booke02 — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:55:00 +0000

As a workaround, create another excel, set macro security to highest, and save. Now when you open the original excel, you will be able to bypass the macro that is activated by workbook_open

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:09:00 +0000

On the Microsoft support page

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555263

it states -

Microsoft has confirmed this is a bug.

By: maricopajoe

maricopajoe — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:12:00 +0000

Not a bug. Same thing happens in Word and is the same in MS Access, and for those of us from the Windows 3.11 days, holding the shift key down would cause startup items in the win.ini file not to load.

I don't know what I would do without the shift key being enabled. It is documented as not a bug at the microsoft site.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:39:00 +0000

Shift is the bypass key in Excel. It’s a way of stopping any macros running as you open Excel (used to be helpful before the dialog box now that gives the option to Enable or Disable macros).

By: Billkamm

Billkamm — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:02:00 +0000

I know in Access shift is the bypass key. Is it possible that pressing shift during the open command is setup as a bypass key?

I have noticed that when launching an Excel workbook from Windows shift does not bypass anything though.

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:58:00 +0000

I don't know.

They have just confirmed it is a bug.

By: XL-Dennis

XL-Dennis — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:13:00 +0000

J-K,

Will MSFT solve it in a coming SP for 2003?

Kind regards,
Dennis