your personal.xls doesn't have to be open, but if you press the button it
will open personal.xls to run the code.

In otherwords, you can't run code in a closed workbook, but excel will open
the workbook and run the macro if it knows where the workbook is. Code
assigned to a command button does include the path to the workbook.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

goss wrote in message
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Hi all

Would like to create custom toolbar with tools to open/close frequently
used files

Toolbar should always be avail on my laptop no matter what xl file I
have open

I created the toolbar, dropped a button on it, when prompted for macro
occurred to me would only work if my personal.xls book where I store my
frequently used macros is open.

However, when I'm tiling, I like to close personal.xls o free up real
estate.

There must be a way around this as there are several buttons on the
toolbars that work with no files open.


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