XL5: "No Documents" Menu Bar Displayed When Document Is Open

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel version 5.0, when you run a Visual Basic, Applications Edition, macro that displays a dialog box while there are no documents in the application window, and if a control is assigned to the dialog box that opens, unhides, or adds a workbook when the dialog box is dismissed or hidden, you may experience the following problems:

• The "No Documents" menu bar is still displayed when the dialog box is dismissed (even though there may be a document in the application window once the dialog box is closed).

  -and-

• If you attempt to exit Microsoft Excel in this state, you may receive a general protection (GP) fault, and receive the error message:

        Excel caused a General Protection Fault in module EXCEL.EXE at
        0042:0CBE
  

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, create a macro that displays the dialog box and, if OK is clicked, adds a new workbook after the dialog box is hidden. When you assign macros to controls on a dialog sheet, the macro is run and then the dialog box is hidden.

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Example

1. Close all open documents.

2. Create a new workbook by clicking New on the File menu.

3. On the Insert menu, click Macro, and then click Module to insert a new module in the workbook.

4. Type the following code on the module sheet:

        Sub ShowDialogToAddWorkbook()
        Dim Response as Integer
                    Response = Thisworkbook.DialogSheets(1).Show
             If Response then Workbooks.Add
        End Sub
   
   

5. On the Insert menu, click Macro, and then click Dialog to insert a dialog sheet in the workbook.

6. Hide this workbook by clicking Hide on the Window menu.

1. On the File menu, click Macro, select the ShowDialogToAddWorkbook macro, and click Run. When the dialog box is displayed, click OK.

Alternate Workaround

Set the Visible property of the Workbook where your Dialogs(x).Show statement is contained to True prior to executing the Dialogs(x).Show statement. Return it to False after the dialog is dismissed.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel for Windows version 5.0c.

MORE INFORMATION

The Show method for dialog boxes will return a value of False (or 0) under the following conditions:

• A dialog box button with the Cancel property is chosen.
• The dialog box is closed by pressing the ESC key.
• The dialog box is closed by choosing Close from the control menu in the upper-left corner of the dialog box.