Hi April27,

Your code works for me, providing that it is placed in the workbook's
ThisWorkbook module - not in a standard module.

As for the button, although you do not say what the button is to do, why not
insert the button manually?


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Regards,
Norman



"april27" wrote in message
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I am writing a VB macro for an excel spreadsheet. I want certain cells to
contain text and numbers when someone opens the workbook. Also I want a
button to be shown when someone opens the workbook. I do not want to use a
userform but I want the button and the text på be directly on the
spreadsheet. I seem to fail with the workbook open sub. My code for this
part
is:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Worksheets("Setup").Range("b19") = "open"
Worksheets("Setup").Range("b20") = "sesame"
End Sub

I do not know how to get this sub to perform the instructions. help!!