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# Workbook Hidden Using GetObject Function

Article ID: 111247

Article Last Modified on 10/10/2006

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0c
- Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition

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## SYMPTOMS

If you use the GetObject function in a Microsoft Visual Basic version 3.0 procedure to open and save a Microsoft Excel workbook, the workbook is saved as hidden and does not appear when you open the workbook again.

## WORKAROUND

To avoid saving a workbook as hidden when you use the GetObject function in a Visual Basic procedure to open and save the workbook, unhide the workbook before saving it, as in the following Visual Basic procedure:

       ' Dimension variable xl as Object type
       Dim xl As Object
       ' Set xl equal to Excel workbook as OLE Automation object
       ' and open file BOOK1.XLS located in c:\excel5
       Set xl = GetObject("C:\excel5\book1.xls")
       ' Make the hidden workbook visible
       xl.Parent.Windows("BOOK1.XLS").Visible = True
       ' Save the file BOOK1.XLS
       xl.Parent.Save
       ' Close the file BOOK1.XLS
       xl.Parent.[Close]
       ' Free the memory used for storing xl variable
       Set xl = Nothing

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## MORE INFORMATION

Note that the above behavior also occurs when you use the CreateObject function in a Visual Basic, Applications Edition, procedure to open and save a Microsoft Excel workbook. However, because Microsoft Excel has an object library, use the functions defined in that library rather than the GetObject or CreateObject function when you access Microsoft Excel objects in a Visual Basic, Applications Edition, procedure.

Additional query words: 3.00 B_VBasic XL OLE Automation

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