I have 4-5 workbooks open and one workbook has macro written for copying of data from other workbooks.
But if a user is working on some other workbook while the macro is running, excel freezes and goes into not responding mode.
How do I disable user interface in this case for all workbooks till macro completes it's coding?
Display a "modal" userform while the macro runs. Users are unable to interact with Excel while the form is displayed.
It could be as simple as having just a label on the form saying "Please wait while macro runs". If the macro takes more than a few seconds to run, you could display a progress bar.
You will probably need to use the QueryClose event to stop the user clicking the close button in the top right corner of the form.
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I am writing some vba in excel to create another excel report.
This report needs to have adjusted the header /footer, which my company have through their own custom ribbon in Office.
If I am in my main workbook, I am able to activate the ribbon by following code:
Application.SendKeys ("%HY2%")
But after I created my excel report it seems like the custom ribbon is not given time to activate or something.
I then call the report like this
code:
Workbooks.Open Filename:="C:\Users\ccc\sss.xlsx"
and then try
code:
Application.SendKeys ("%HY2%")
Then it is possible to call the Home tab, but not the custom one.
I have tried to delay the code using wait function, sleep function and Do While (check if ready)
But during all these, it seems like excel tabs is on "hold", it is not activating the custom ribbon. Therefore my code opens the Hometab, but it cannot find "Y2" Ribbon.
I have tried activating the main workbook to do some random code, then going back again and activating the report again, but no...
Can anybody help please?
I hope you can help me with this issue, I couldn't find any answer nor on google nor here. So here's the point:
I have to userforms. One of them opens on Worksheet_Open. In the Background I can still see the worksheet and the excel application. But when I click outside of the userform or close it, the application window disapears too. But in the open processes I can still see excel open.
My intention is to have the Excel window always open (in the background) so that when I close the UserForm the Excel Tables will be visible.
What do I have to code for that? To hide the userform didn't work for me...
Thanks in advance.
Hi there if you want to use both excel and your Userform at the same time then go to your Userform property and make ShowModal = False
I am not very good with userforms so hopefully this is an easy question.
I have a userform in a spreadsheet that opens with
UserForm1.Show False
To ensure excel can still be used while it is open. What I would like to happen is that whenever you click away from (but not close) the userform a text box is opened asking if you want to maintain the edited values or not. I can't figure out how to initiate more code when the userform is no long the point of interest. Usually items on userforms have enter and exit which I believe would do what I need but I can't find the equivalent for the actual userform.
Any advice would be appreciated.
To allow a user to enter values into excel while a form is visible, you will need to update the ShowModal property on the userform to false.
Or as you are showing the userform, you can show it vbModeless.
UserForm.Show vbModeless
I have a VBA macro, developed by a third party, and which is password-protected. When the macro finishes what is is supposed to do, it shows a message box, and to continue beyond that the user needs to click a button. Before the button is clicked, you cannot do anything else .
I need to run that macro on several files. Is there a way to bypass the message box, and just call another instance of the macro, on a different file...?
First of all, thank you for your time and assistance in reviewing this!...
I'm trying to upgrade an Excel VBA workbook to a VSTO Excel Add-in in VB.NET using VS 2010. In the original (i.e.- VBA) version I have a modeless UserForm (called frmMain) that floats on top and is visible at all times while the user is still within the Excel application, but is not visible if the user moves to another window outside of Excel.
For example, within Excel the user can click on any worksheet tab, select any cell, etc. and the UserForm is still visible. This is exactly how I'd like it.
The problem is, that in the new VSTO add-in, I can not get the Windows form to mimic this same behavior.
I use frmMain.Show() to show the form as a modeless form, but the moment the user clicks an Excel worksheet (i.e.- activates a worksheet) the form becomes hidden behind the worksheet.
I can manually Alt-Tab to bring the form back into view, but I need it to always remain in view - floating on top of the Excel worksheets so long as the user hasn't left the Excel application.
I tried various things, including setting the form to TopMost, however, that causes the form to be TopMost everywhere - including outside of Excel. Worse than that, if the user does anything that would normally result in Excel's launching a dialog box (e.g.- closing an open workbook, raising the alert "Do you want to save the changes...") the alert dialog box itself is hidden and inaccessible behind the frmMain form (since the frmMain is TopMost).
How can I get my form to behave in the desired way (i.e.- the same way it did in VBA)?
Thanks!!!
Rob
You should take a look at Custom Task Panes which can be docked or floated within the Excel application. You could also look into the COM interfaces for a lower level connection (see related SO Post) - although Task Panes are really what this type of behavior was intended for.
This method might work (worked for me):
Create a worksheet_selectionChange event handler inside your form class
Put these lines in this event handler:
Dim FormHandle As IntPtr = Me.Handle
Me.Visible = False
Me.Show(NativeWindow.FromHandle(FormHandle))