My userform still show my workbook in macro disable computer - excel

I have a question to ask about my userform. I hide my workbook and just userform will visible. It work perfectly in my computer because my computer is macro enabled. But in macro disabled computer, user still can edit my workbook before they enable the macro security warning.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application. Visible=False
UserForm1.Show
End Sub
This is code I used to hide the workbook. Anyone could tell me how can I guide the workbook even in macro disable computer?
Thank

You could add a sheet telling the user to activate macros, protect it and hide all other sheets. You can also protect the workbook to prevent the user from adding or unhiding sheets. (The latter could also be done by setting them to very hidden).
If you need to show the sheets at some point for user interaction you can hide them again upon saving using the Workbook_BeforeSave event.

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Can VBA change visibility of a sheet while integrity of workbook structure is locked?

I would like to lock the integrity of a workbook so that users can't delete or move sheets. However I would still like to be able to hide and unhide sheets using VBA. Is there any way to achieve this?
You may unprotect the workbook, do your stuff and protect the workbook back:
ThisWorkbook.Unprotect Password:="your_password"
'[... do your stuff...]
ThisWorkbook.Protect Password:="your_password", Structure:=True
Use this code when you set the protection.
Sheets("Sheet1").Protect Password:="myPassword", UserInterfaceOnly:=True
The effect is that the user can't change anything that you haven't allowed (there might be more to the above code than I show here) while the UserInterfaceOnly property allows your code to act as if no protection existed.

Workbook_Open() in Excel 2016 not firing

Excel 2016 (or 365) does not seem to fire the Workbook_Open() sub reliably or more precisely, not at all!
The simple event sub
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
MsgBox "Work book is open"
End Sub
does not seem to work. However, if a workbook is already open and then the workbook containing the above Sub is then opened, it does run as expected.
I notice that unlike Excel 2010, 2016 (365) opens each workbook in its own window, not a workbook window in the Excel application window. Is this a bug in 2016 and is there a workaround?
I have produced a work around for my own applications and that is call the activation of a worksheet and call my initialization routines from there. But a bit "rough" and it would be good to have the Workbook_Open() sub working correctly.
It is a simple single Sub in the ThisWorkbook module. Macros are enabled. In Excel 2010 it works perfectly, as do two other macros in other workbooks for which I have written macros. It is just this one thing with Excel 2016. Given that the Workbook_Open() sub is the gateway to a workbook it seems a little strange that we have to go to a workaround to make it function.
Try encapsulating the call with a new instance of Excel. Example below:
Sub OpenInNewExcel()
Dim Background_Excel As Excel.Application
Dim pathName As String
Dim fileName As String
Let pathName = "Enter your path here" 'include "\" at the end
Let fileName = "Enter your file name here"
Background_Excel.Workbooks.Open fileName:=pathName & fileName
Background_Excel.Parent.Quit ' This is how you close the file completely using VBA otherwise the file will close and the Excel Shell will remain.
End Sub
Also make sure that enable macros is turned on in the Options-Trust Center.
You have to add the file/folder location of your workbook as a "Trusted Location".
You can see more info about that in Designate trusted locations for files in Office 2016.
I have same problem then I found solution after google it:
https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum/vba-macros/excel-2016-workbook_open-event-doesnt-trigger
Then I also use "Private Sub Workbook_Open()" and "Public Sub Auto_Open()" open in excel 2016 that work fine:
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
CustomStartUp
End Sub
Public Sub Auto_Open()
CustomStartUp
End Sub
Private Sub CustomStartUp()
MsgBox "Work book is open"
End Sub
I've had this problem (I'm using Microsoft 365), and I found this thread.
It happens for me sometimes when I have another workbook already open, then, on trying to open my macro-enabled workbook, before any sheet is displayed I get the Microsoft warning message about macros. Then, although I click its 'Enable' button, the Workbook opens, macros do get enabled, but Workbook_Open doesn't run.
I've never known the problem to occur if no other workbook is open. (Of course, the user might still get the yellow-backed messages at the top of the workbook, asking them to click the Enable Editing and/or Enable Macros buttons.)
Note that my Workbook_Open just calls another 'workbook-opening' sub in a module to do all the opening processing.
My solution: When my workbook-opening sub is called, it sets a global variable to True to indicate it has run.
I've made it obvious to the user that the problem has occurred, by means of a 'Welcome' sheet with all its cells locked, so the user can do nothing; at this point all other sheets are very hidden. The workbook-opening sub, when it runs, deactivates this sheet and makes it very hidden, so the user never normally sees it, and makes the other sheets visible. But if this screen remains, it instructs the user to select the other workbook, then select this one again. My Workbook_Activate code then runs, and because the global variable isn't True, it calls the workbook-opening sub. If this global variable is True, it does nothing.
To make this work, the Workbook_Close sub makes the other sheets very hidden and the Welcome sheet visible, ready for the next time the Workbook is opened.
Hey presto, the problem is solved.
The Welcome sheet actually has a dual purpose, in that if either of the yellow-backed warning messages are displayed, it will remain and force the user, with suitable instructions, to click Enable Editing and/or Enable macros. If the users aren't au fait with macro-enabled Excel, they will just ignore these and try to carry on regardless.
All this is much easier to implement than to explain. I hope it's clear.
And I hope this might be of help to someone.
I had this issue with one of my files as well. I managed to fix this issue by running Workbook_Open manually in the VBA editor once open and saving the file in another location. The file in the new location should have no issue with auto-running Workbook_Open. If this doesn't work, copy the original file to a new location before manually running & saving.
If the newly saved file does not run Workbook_Open, repair your version of Office.

How to Activate a specific Workbook on non-VBA Excel Quit

I have a workbook ("CodeBook.xlsm") that runs code using a BeforeSave event. When a user has multiple workbooks open and chooses to quit excel via File/Exit, the user is prompted whether to save workbooks, and if yes to CodeBook.xlsm, then the BeforeSave code is run. The problem is, at that point the ActiveWorkbook may not be CodeBook.xlsm, unless that happens to be the workbook that the user was in when he/she selected Exit Excel. If the user quit excel from another workbook, the BeforeSave code is running but the activeworkbook is some random file of the user, so all the references to specific worksheets and ranges in the BeforeSave code do not work.
I have tried various ways using a Static declaration to retain the name of CodeBook and workbook().activate to activate it when the application is quitting, but when BeforeSave runs, it can't pick up the name CodeBook anywhere, short of hard-coding the name into the code.
Any suggestions? How to retain a variable name in memory when there is no code running, but is there when a user initiates a quit excel, OR how to activate a specific workbook when Excel is quitting from a user command and not from application.quit. Using excel 2010.
I overcame this by including a reference to the specific workbook.
For example, this code simply saves the date/time stamp in cell A1 of Sheet1 before closing the document. By adding ThisWorkbook, it works on the specific workbook that the code resides in. If you don't add ThisWorkbook then it will work on the active workbook when the user quits.
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = Now()
End Sub
Place this code in the ThisWorkbook module.

Enabling macro by default on a workbook

I am new to VBA/Excel programming, I am refreshing a pivot table using a macro. I have the following VBA code on one of my sheets.
Excel version : 2013 ( saving my file as macro enabled workbook)
Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
RefreshPivotTables
End Sub
Private Sub Worksheet_Deactivate()
RefreshPivotTables
End Sub
The code works fine when I switch back and forth after enabling the macro, but when I open the Excel doc I get this "Enable macro ribbon" at the top which is preventing the macro from running. I need to switch to another tab and come back to my original sheet to activate the macro.
Is there a way to set "Enable Macro" for the workbook by default / some code that will do this on behalf of the running user? I cannot expect all my users to switch workbooks and come back to see the refresh happen.
Go into the options in Excel and then to the trust center settings. Put the location in as a trusted location.
Alternatively on my machine if I open a sheet, enable macros then close it again a few times Excel asks if I want to make this a trusted document.

Userform in Excel 2013 disappears while switching an active workbook behind

I have faced one problem in Excel 2013. In my project, I have a userform that contains a listbox which lists names of all opened excel books.
When a user clicks on a particular name in the list, the appropriate book is activated. So the userform is always on top and while the user is clicking on the names in the list, he can see all opened workbooks getting activated one by one behind the active userform.
This is the way it used to work in Excel 2010.
Now, after upgrade from 2010 to 2013, if a user clicks on a name in the list, selected workbook gets activated but the userform disappears.
What exactly has been broken in Excel 2013 and what is the way to bypass this problem?
Yes, the default behavior has changed. In Pre Excel 2013, The different workbooks are shown within one main Excel window if opened in the same instance. But in Excel 2013, they are shown in their own window. And because of this a modeless userform will only be visible on top of the workbook that was active when the userform was loaded.
And I don't think this has a fix yet. It is by design and may not be fixed.
#Siddharth, based on what you said, I think I have a solution. When you open a form, it will only show up on top of the ActiveWorkbook. As long as all the code is in the same code thread (not sure if terminology is right) , you're stuck with the same workbook; But if you use the Application.Run or Application.Ontime commands it seems to start it's own code thread, which is independent enough to work. Just Activate the workbook/sheet first, and then Unload the form and remote call the macro that showed the form in the first place.
Unfortunately, you need to use Unload instead of Hide, because of the aforementioned issue; which means you need to save any/all options selected.
Private Sub lstFiles_DblClick(ByVal Cancel As MSForms.ReturnBoolean)
ThisWorkbook.Application.Workbooks(lstFiles.Text).Activate
Unload Me
Application.Run "USER_Macro1"
'Application.OnTime Now(), "USER_Macro1"
End Sub
 
Private Sub USER_Macro1(Optional Control) ' As IRibbonControl)
ModelessForm.Show vbModeless
End Sub
I tested it in Excel 2013 and so far it even seems to work regardless of the Screenupdating = false issue seen elsewhere.

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