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MS Office Forum / Excel / Programming / July 2008Personal workbook
I've created a personal workbook that I am containing macros in. It is hidden so when I open other workbooks it doesn't show - which is what I want - however when I close out the other workbooks (or try to close out Excel completely) the personal workbook stays - just with it's window hidden. How do I get around that? Unless you unhide Personal.xls and close it, it will remain open as long as Excel is. That's a good thing too.  SignatureJim | I've created a personal workbook that I am containing macros in. It | is hidden so when I open other workbooks it doesn't show - which is | what I want - however when I close out the other workbooks (or try to | close out Excel completely) the personal workbook stays - just with | it's window hidden. How do I get around that? How do you know it remains open when Excel is closed? Are you seeing Excel as a process in your task manager. You should leave personal.xls open while you are using excel. On default personal.xls is set to open and close with excel. If you close it before you are done using excel then you won't be able to use your macros. If you don't see excel in the task manager then personal.xls is not open. Hope that helps. >Unless you unhide Personal.xls and close it, it will remain open as long as >Excel is. That's a good thing too. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >| close out Excel completely) the personal workbook stays - just with >| it's window hidden. How do I get around that? On Jul 31, 9:03 am, "dustinbrearton via OfficeKB.com" <u44989@uwe> wrote: > How do you know it remains open when Excel is closed? Are you seeing Excel > as a process in your task manager. You should leave personal.xls open while [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > -- > Message posted via OfficeKB.comhttp://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/excel-programming/200807/1 If I open up another workbook (for example "MyWorkbook.xlsx) "personal.xlsx" is opened behind the scenes. All is great with the world. When I close out "MyWorkbook.xlsx", "personal.xlsx" is still open and I can see it. (The window is hidden, but Excel is kept open. If I only ever had "MyWorkbook.xlsx" open, then if I want to get out of Excel I have to close things out TWICE, once for "MyWorkbook.xlsx" and one for "personal.xlsx". That, from a user standpoint, could be a little annoying. I was wondering if there was a way around that. I understand what you are referring to. This is a side-effect of having the "Show all windows in the Taskbar" option set on under Excel Options, Advanced, Display. If you can live without this you should turn it off. I don't know of any other remedy. SignatureJim On Jul 31, 9:03 am, "dustinbrearton via OfficeKB.com" <u44989@uwe> wrote: > How do you know it remains open when Excel is closed? Are you seeing Excel > as a process in your task manager. You should leave personal.xls open [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Message posted via > OfficeKB.comhttp://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/excel-programming/200807/1 If I open up another workbook (for example "MyWorkbook.xlsx) "personal.xlsx" is opened behind the scenes. All is great with the world. When I close out "MyWorkbook.xlsx", "personal.xlsx" is still open and I can see it. (The window is hidden, but Excel is kept open. If I only ever had "MyWorkbook.xlsx" open, then if I want to get out of Excel I have to close things out TWICE, once for "MyWorkbook.xlsx" and one for "personal.xlsx". That, from a user standpoint, could be a little annoying. I was wondering if there was a way around that. > I understand what you are referring to. This is a side-effect of having the > "Show all windows in the Taskbar" option set on under Excel Options, [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I will mention that option to the user to see what she thinks. Thank you very much! I am not sure I completely understand your senario below. Are you hitting the large X in the far upper right corner and not the small one just below the big one? If you hit the large X you should be thrown all the way out of Excel. >On Jul 31, 9:03 am, "dustinbrearton via OfficeKB.com" <u44989@uwe> >wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >standpoint, could be a little annoying. I was wondering if there was >a way around that. On Jul 31, 12:42 pm, "dustinbrearton via OfficeKB.com" <u44989@uwe> wrote: > I am not sure I completely understand your senario below. Are you hitting > the large X in the far upper right corner and not the small one just below [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I am hitting the far x which should close out of Excel completely. But it doesn't it leaves the personal.xlsm open. |
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