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Using AutoSave and Multiple Windows Changes Active Cell
Last reviewed: November 8, 1996
Article ID: Q118693
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a
  • Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When you run the AutoSave add-in macro in a Microsoft Excel 5.0 workbook, the active cell will change to a cell in the first window of the first sheet tab of the workbook if the workbook contains two or more additional windows.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post more information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

An additional window in a workbook enables you to view different parts of the workbook simultaneously. More than one window can be created for a workbook. The window title bar shows the original workbook name followed by a colon and the number of the new window. For example, the second window of the FILENAME.XLS workbook would be named FILENAME.XLS:2.

The first window is marked by a colon followed by the number 1 (:1) on the title bar following the name of the workbook (FILENAME.XLS:1). The first sheet tab is defined as being the sheet with the left-most tab at the bottom of the workbook window with the ":1" in the title bar (FILENAME.XLS).

The AutoSave macro will not move the active cell or change the active sheet when only one window is present in the workbook.

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Last reviewed: November 8, 1996
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