On Aug 21, 4:48 pm, "Jim Rech" wrote:
Is this a bug or a feature?

It "is" regardless. Can you hide the control as a workaround?

Yes, which works fine for new workbooks that have this workaround.
Workbooks created before this "fix" will always exhibit this behavior
when opened in Excel 2007.

I'm hoping this is a bug in Excel 2007 that will eventually get
patched. Actually, the release of Office 2007 has forced us to change
our business strategy. We're now developing web-based solutions using
open-source projects (we chose CakePHP) to develop our loan
underwriting tools, which will replace our Excel-based ones. I've had
my fun with backwards compatibility with MS versions. Now if we can
just convince our clients to use our products via Firefox instead of
IE...