ActivatePrevious Method Uses Z-Order Defined by User
Article ID: 131290
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q131290
SYMPTOMS
The ActivatePrevious and ActivateNext methods may not activate windows in
the order that you expect.
WORKAROUND
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To work around this problem, use the following procedure.
Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub Test()
' Create a new window.
ActiveWindow.NewWindow
' Create a second new window.
ActiveWindow.NewWindow
' For each open window, display the name of the window.
For Each x In Windows
MsgBox x.Caption
Next x
End Sub
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
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