By any chance is a macro trying to run or is paused? Try clicking on the
square "Reset" button.

"Bill Martin" wrote:

Having recently converted to Excel 2003 from '97 I'm slightly stumped. I
need to add a reference to another one of my XLS files into my VBE
environment. When I click on Tools though, the References button is grayed
out.

Trolling through the help files simply tells me to click ToolsReferences
to add what I want. I don't see any help on why that option is not
available to me. Presumably some bit of configuration somewhere in the new
system isn't right but I've been unable to locate it. Sound familiar?

Thanks.

Bill