Hi,

Based on test, it is strange that I did not find the related menu per your
description.
e.g. The "Show Objects", "Format-Unhide"

Since Excel 97 is expired, I tested on Excel 2003.

I tried to build a xla by saving a new excel workbook as .xla file, but if
we add a dialog sheet into workbook, I can no longer save it as xla file.

Also even for workbook objects, e.g. Sheet1,Sheet2,Sheet3, once we save it
as xla file. Now we opened the xla, the workbook UI did not show, only the
related code/object in the VBA Editor is available.

Currently an you provide a simple reproduce steps, so that I can research
the issue more efficiently.
Thanks!

If you still have any concern, please feel free to let me know


Best regards,

Peter Huang

Microsoft Online Community Support
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