thanx for the reply Jim,
I must have lost u in a such a big explanation of my problem. Sorry.
I'll try to be clearer this time.
I'm not suggesting that i'm adding 2 commandbars (with or without same
name). i have only 1 commandbar by the name "Resource". I'm getting
duplicate commandbars when i open 2 workbooks simultaneously and these
2 WBs are versions of the same code. so when i open WB ver 1.1, i get
my commandbar nice and proper but now i have WB1.2 in which i have
changed some code (i didn't change any code corresponding to
commandbars). now I've to open this WB1.2 to copy a few sheets into
it from WB1.1.
so the situation is that WB1.1 is already open and when i open WB1.2
(with WB1.1 also open), i get the commandbar "Resource" again, so i
have 2 commandbars exactly same and i'm not sure how to have only 1
commandbar.
i tried to get the name of commandbar b4 loading any commandbar (which
i thought was the logical solution) but to my surprise, it didn't work.
can you help. i hope i didn't overdo my explanation again.

regards,
amit