OK, thank you, I have taken a while to get it to work because in 2007 the
caption sometimes also includes "[Compatibility Mode]" so it didn't work for
some files, but it does work with:
AppActivate "Microsoft Excel - " & ThisWorkbook.name

Thank you

M


"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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Maybe you can cheat just a little.

I put this under the userform:

Option Explicit
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Application.OnTime Now + TimeSerial(0, 0, 1), "SelectACell"
End Sub

And this in a general module:
Option Explicit
Sub testme()
UserForm1.Show False
End Sub
Sub SelectACell()
AppActivate Application.Caption
End Sub

It seemed to work ok in my simple testing.


Michelle wrote:

I'm using a modeless form in Excel 2007, I want to be able to scroll
around
Excel and occasionally select something from the form. But when I use the
form, the form gets 'focus' and things (like the mouse-wheel) don't apply
to
the application anymore.

Is there a way to hand focus back to the application? Or is there a way
so
set the form so that it doesn't take this 'focus'?

Thanks

Michelle

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Dave Peterson