Hey!

Nevermind I figured it out! Yaaay!... I had the code in
the 'Sheet1 module' and it should've been in the
ThisWorkbook module.... thanks!

-----Original Message-----
Hey Tom,

Thanks for the info. :)

But I'm still not quite understanding how to do this? I
just rename the Sub to Auto_Open/Workbook_Open ?? cuz
that
doesn't seem to be working :S

Sorry I'm new to all this!

-----Original Message-----
Workbook_Open is a special procedure that executes when
the workbook is
opened (unless the user disables macros or security
settings disable
macros).

You can read about events he

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/events.htm
Chip Pearson's page on events. These events were
introduced in xl97 and are
the preferred events. Prior to xl97, there were events
such as Auto_Open,
Auto_Close and so forth. These are still supported.
These older style
events go in regular or standard modules, while the
newer
events go in the
special modules ThisWorkbook (for workbook level events)
or the related
Sheet module if sheet level events.

As for comboboxes, if you populate them with code (using
additem as an
example), then the populated list lasts only as long as
the workbook is
open. When closed, the items in the list are lost and
must be repopulated.
This is why it was suggested you do this in the
workbook_open or the older
equivalent Auto_open events.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"sarah" wrote in
message
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hi,

I'm not sure I understand what you mean?? Sorry I
haven't
used excel much!

What's the workbook's open event??

Thanks! :)
-----Original Message-----
The combobox has to know somehow that it has those
list
items, so maybe
you could place the pice of code in the workbook's
open
event, or
another way is to have the elements in a range and
link
this range to
the combo-box

- Mangesh


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