You looking for Application Level events ?
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/AppEvent.htm

NickHK

"vqthomf" wrote in message
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Hi is it possible to capture all user action within Excel, I have a file
that
updates a database but falls over is a user is in a file that uses the
database. I am going to put a flag in a ini file and have all files using
the
database check the ini and then give the user a message to close the
workbook.
any help will be much appreciated.
Charles