thanks Nick I have changed my settings and this solves the problem now.
:)

"NickHK" wrote:

Referenceing workbooks without their extension (e.g. .xls), as in:
Workbooks("VAR Calc").Activate
will work on machines that have the Windows setting Folder Options View
"Hide file extensions for known types" checked.
However, this gives a subscript out of range error.

What do you get for
?Workbooks("VAR Calc").Windows(1).Visible

NickHK

"Cammy" wrote in message
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I have a macro with a piece of coding in it that has always worked in the
past. It is a simple command to activate a workbook or a worksheet within
a
workbook.
For example
Workbooks("VAR Calc").Activate
or Workbooks("VAR Calc").Worksheets("Historical VaR").Activate
but now when I try and run the macro I get this very strange error message
"Run time error '-2147352565 (8002000b)': Can't move focus to the control
because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept
the
focus."
and when I debug it shows that it gets stuck on the activation code.
this is even more stragne a if I run the macro on another computer it
seems
to work. Any comments will be greatfully received.