hi,
not sure why it isn't popping up on your machine. it does on mine. but you
can access it anyway.

Toolscustomizetoolbar tabcheck stop recording

scroll down....it's near the bottom. you can call it anytime, recording or
not.

regards
FSt1



"Dano" wrote:

When recording a new macro in excel I want to select the relative reference
button in the stop recording box, but the stop recording box does not popup;
it's no where to be found. Everything I've read on-line says it just
appears, but it doesn't on my system.

It works fine on my co-workers machine, and he has the same system as mine.
We are both running Windows XP, with excel version 2003.