Hello, I am having trouble making Excel activate the previous workbook.

We have a program which automatically creates spreadsheets in Excel
(With random names) so I cannot just do a
workbook("Book1.xls").activate code.

I am looking for a way to say "Go back to the last workbook you were
in".

Is this possible??

Thanks

John C


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If the process is controlled by code you could do something like this:
In header:
Public LastBookUsed as Workbook
In your sub:
Set LastBookUsed = Workbooks.Add
....
LastBookUsed.Activate
But this would only work in certain situations where your code is in
control; if the user freely switches workbooks you need to trap that as an
event in order to keep track of which book was last used. The Excel
Application has a WorkbookActivate event but I think you would need to create
a class With Events in order to trap the event and create an event procedure
that would keep track of the last workbook the user was in.
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"johncassell" wrote:


Hello, I am having trouble making Excel activate the previous workbook.

We have a program which automatically creates spreadsheets in Excel
(With random names) so I cannot just do a
workbook("Book1.xls").activate code.

I am looking for a way to say "Go back to the last workbook you were
in".

Is this possible??

Thanks

John C


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