Thanks Duncan and Steve,

However, the application that is running minimized in the taskbar is not
Excel. After two days of trying and now the third day. I finally found what
I needed using the Windows API. It took me five hours today to complete the
task. I can't believe how hard it is to work with the API ! You have to get
the handle to the desktop window, then sequence through all of the Desktop's
child windows until you get the handle to the window you want, then you
activate that child window.