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control box, macro security and trouble saving a file
We have a spreadsheet application that contains a control box with a drop
down menu that is connected with a pivot table that returns data based upon the menu selection. When this was created, it was acertained that this control wouldn't work unless macro security was set to medium. All applicants who use this application are advised as such. This app has been in use for 2 rounds of funding with no reported problems, until today: I had an applicant call who couldn't get the drop down to work, he couldn't make a selection. When this occurs, I have them switch macro security to medium. He did so, but the box still didn't work. He emailed me the file, and when I opened that page of the application, the control box had moved from the right hand side of the sheet, to the left hand side, and was sitting atop some text. The sheets of the application are all password protected with only specific cells unlocked, so he couldn't have moved the control. I unlocked it, moved the control box, locked it back up, and was able to make the selection, but then I couldn't save the file -it repeatedly errored out. I moved the mouse to a different page and was then able to save the file. I sent it back to him, and it appears to be functioning? Any thought on how the control was moved? Why I had trouble saving it? |
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control box, macro security and trouble saving a file
Julie:
If you have already solved your "roving control" problem, then you can disregard my thoughts. (I scan for older postings that have only their original request, trying to determine why no one responded. It's either a hobby or a bad habit.) Since you seem to have set adequate security protections and judging from your original posting, my knee-jerk reaction would be a corrupted file. Especially since, once you reset the errant control, you had problems re-saving the workbook. Has the user experienced any, subsequent problems? When you moved the control back to where it belonged, did you inspect any of the control's properties or underlying macros/VBA code? Did you compare the bad workbook against a clean version to determine if anything else was amiss (like an extra or missing worksheet)? Has that particular user registered any other "strange" happenings with his/her computer? While there could be other causes, the placement of a control, whether intentional or otherwise, shouldn't have anything to do with its functionality. Steve in Ohio "Julie N. in Iowa" wrote: We have a spreadsheet application that contains a control box with a drop down menu that is connected with a pivot table that returns data based upon the menu selection. When this was created, it was acertained that this control wouldn't work unless macro security was set to medium. All applicants who use this application are advised as such. This app has been in use for 2 rounds of funding with no reported problems, until today: I had an applicant call who couldn't get the drop down to work, he couldn't make a selection. When this occurs, I have them switch macro security to medium. He did so, but the box still didn't work. He emailed me the file, and when I opened that page of the application, the control box had moved from the right hand side of the sheet, to the left hand side, and was sitting atop some text. The sheets of the application are all password protected with only specific cells unlocked, so he couldn't have moved the control. I unlocked it, moved the control box, locked it back up, and was able to make the selection, but then I couldn't save the file -it repeatedly errored out. I moved the mouse to a different page and was then able to save the file. I sent it back to him, and it appears to be functioning? Any thought on how the control was moved? Why I had trouble saving it? |
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