If you look up 'Features that are unavailable in shared workbooks' you will
see that shared workbooks are pretty restricted, add the fact that shared
workbooks are bug-ridden and don't work well, then I would suggest you come
up with an alternative.

Why not just have a template workbook and use process to control it, open
the template first time, and save it as a new workbook with initials. Make
it read only.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Dave Shaw" wrote in message
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I have some code to detect if a person has used the system before and if
not
copies a template worksheet and renames it with their initials. It works
fine
in a normal workbook.

What I want to do is share the workbook so that other users can access and
change the document at the same time. However when the macro runs in a
shared workbook it doesn't copy the template worksheet. Not sure where I
am
going wrong.

The code is

Sub createsheet()
Dim wSheet As Worksheet
Dim UserName As String
Dim initial As String


initial = Range("initial")
On Error Resume Next
Set wSheet = Worksheets(initial)
If wSheet Is Nothing Then
MsgBox ("This is the first time you have used this so we just need to set
up
your user name")
Application.UserName = InputBox("Input your user name here in format 'Joe
Bloggs'", , Application.UserName)
UserName = Application.UserName
Range("currentuser").Value = UserName
Worksheets("template").Copy After:=Worksheets("front")
Sheets(2).Name = initial
ActiveWorkbook.Save

'Sheets(Initial).Visible = False
Else

End If
On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave