How about the Workbook_Activate event?

What event are you using to close the other toolbar?

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HTH

Bob

"donwb" wrote in message
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Excel 2003
I have 3 workbooks each having a specific custom toolbar associated with
it..
The toolbars are very different from each other.
The workbooks are all open and used together, the switching from one to
another -
when required - being achieved using "Window" in the menu bar.
When this is done, my code automatically selects the "incoming" workbook's
associated toolbar OK and closes that of the "outgoing" book.
However, if I CLOSE (and save) any one of the WBs, say#1,
I want the next WB that appears (it doesn't matter which of the 2 left,
say #3)
to appear with it's correct associated bar.
The problem is I can't find a trigger event associated with the appearance
of WB#3 when WB#1 closes, to trigger the appropriate selection code.

By selecting a WB from the menu "Window", Private Sub Workbook_Activate()
is triggered, but when a WB just appears, simply because another has been
closed,
it doesn't.

My optimism says there must be some way of catching this change,
but so far it's escaped me!
Help please
donwb