I have never for the life of me understood why Excel's Tools / Options
is completely disabled if no sheet is open.

To my mind, Microsoft has never implemented a distinction between
options applying to the current sheet, versus those applying to all
sheets.

Example: It makes no sense whatever to require a sheet to be displayed
merely for you to set the macro security level--an option which
determines what action will occur when a sheet opens to BEGIN with.

And on and on.

Better yet, why aren't there TWO SEPARATE sets of options? One for the
current sheet, and one for all sheets?

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