Comments on: Missing VBE Toolbars

By: me

me — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:47:00 +0000

Here too the same weird behaviour… just stress even more my hartred for MS products in general that I am forced to use in the office… think the world would be a better and safer place without MS (and only with Unix type OS & softs built on it).

It also shows how Excel – VBA, despite being a great tool because very easy to learn and automate things with, is a very poor environment… and who says poor says cheap quality… the simple fact that it exhibits these erratic behaviours (this one being only one of a multitude I personally encounter on a weekly basis) how how poorly it has been developped…

as you understood by now, I am unhappy and forced user of excel/vba… but I know that I am very demanding, it still does the job most of the time…

By: Craig Haynes

Craig Haynes — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:14:00 +0000

Infuriating problem. Glad I'm not the only one who was panicking.

Many thanks for the fixes.

By: James Bartlett

James Bartlett — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:34:00 +0000

At the same time as finding this page, which made me feel a lot better I also found Microsoft’s kb article 829059. I’ve done a couple of quick tests with my VB editor not maximised and this seems to solve the problem. OK, it’s a pain that I can’t keep the window maximised but it’s better than the alternative. Hope this helps.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:42:00 +0000

You are a life saver. The same thing happen to me today, and I too felt like I knew nothing about Excel as the anxioty mounted and panic started to set in.

By: Juan Pablo Gonzalez

Juan Pablo Gonzalez — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:12:00 +0000

I’ve seen it happen in my Excel 2000 install, which is the machine that I use to develop.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:06:00 +0000

Al -

I've lost the VBE command bars when using an earlier Excel version than 2007, though I don't know if it's only 2003 or also earlier. It doesn't happen very frequently.

By: Al Paca

Al Paca — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:16:00 +0000

It’s nice to know that others also have to live with the shortcomings of Excel. The disappearing VBE toolbar is obviously one of the new features introduced with 2007. I never had this before (skipped 2003 though). Solution as stated above.

Greetings to MikeC who is a fellow sufferer under the phenomenon “open-vbe-when-you-come-back-from-screensaver-regardless-of-where-the-current-focus-is”. This started at least with 2002 if not before. Solution none.

By: keepITcool

keepITcool — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:07:00 +0000

PS If these hangs occur when resume from any sleep state (s1 or s3)
I sometimes find a small iexplorer task (2k), while there are no iexplorer windows open.
Killing that task also does the trick. Haven't figured which process is spawning it though, but since it's not malicious I dont really care.

By: keepITcool

keepITcool — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:56:00 +0000

I start outlook. That revives excel + vbe toolbars.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:58:00 +0000

I get a similar thing to Charles. Whenever I lock my (work) PC (XP with Office 2K), when Excel is running I get a VBE with no toolbars.

What's even stranger, is that after I have used the VBE at some point through the day, if I then close Excel and lock the PC, when I unlock it, I get the Excel VBE, even though Excel isn't running. Which is as good as demonstrating (57.8-57)=0.799999999999997 for impressing the ladies...