Hi,

not sure if there's anything in Excel 2003 which would
cause this, but a couple of suggestions.

1. A sheet's visible property can be xlveryhidden, which
hides the sheet and stops it showing in the SheetFormat
dialogue. Although your point about SELECt code not
working would still hold true

2. Somebody's been messing around with the desktop screen
resolution settings, making the window too big and hiding
the tabs and scroll bars. This happened to a colleague
recently and it took a while to figure out what had
happened.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
Hey all, I know of two ways to hide the tabs of
worksheets in Excel (I'm
using 2003).

1. By going into "Tools"-"Options" and then
unclicking "Sheet Tabs"
2. By going into the Sheets (whose tab you want to hide)
and selecting
"Format"-"Sheet"-"Hide"

However, I've been looking at this one excel file and I
can't figure out how
it is hiding its tabs.

It doesn't seem to be hiding the tabs with either of the
above two methods
since:
1. The "Sheet Tabs" checkbox is clicked (i.e. they should
be showing
according to that). Also, I've tried deselecting that
checkbox, clicking
"ok" and then tried going back in and selecting it and
clicking "ok" and
still the tabs don't appear.
2. I can't unhide the sheets under "Format"-"Sheet"-
"Unhide". Also in the
VB code that shows the sheets, it just uses the "Select"
method of the sheets
- which wouldn't be possible if the sheet was not visible
(i.e. you would
have to make the sheet visible first).

I think this excel file may have been created with an
earlier version of
excel and therefore it may be using an alternate means to
hide the tabs.

I should add, that no tabs control is even visible in the
excel workbook -
i.e. regardless of what sheet you are on - you can't
access the tab control
on the bottom of the page. Which matches the criteria of
the "Sheet Tabs"
checkbox - but it is definitely checked.

Thanks for any suggestions as to how these tabs
(specifically the whole tab
control) is being hidden.

Novice
.