Possible to remove Workbook window title bar? Or other ways toarrange multiple workbook windows.
 

Does anyone know whether it is somehow possible with VBA and API calls
to remove the title bar from a workbook window? I know it can be done
for a user form, but I like to arrange the 3 windows (all from one
workbook) in the main excel window and the title bars for the seperate
windows are messing up the whole view.

May be there is another way to display multiple worksheet tabs from
one workbook at once in the main Excel window. ??

Let me know whether someone has good sugestion regarding this.

Possible to remove Workbook window title bar? Or other ways to arrange multiple workbook windows.
 

ActiveWindow.NewWindow
Windows.Arrange ArrangeStyle:=xlHorizontal

Regards,
Peter T


"minimaster" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know whether it is somehow possible with VBA and API calls
to remove the title bar from a workbook window? I know it can be done
for a user form, but I like to arrange the 3 windows (all from one
workbook) in the main excel window and the title bars for the seperate
windows are messing up the whole view.

May be there is another way to display multiple worksheet tabs from
one workbook at once in the main Excel window. ??

Let me know whether someone has good sugestion regarding this.

Possible to remove Workbook window title bar? Or other ways toarrange multiple workbook windows.
 

With "at once" I meant without a seperate title bar for each one.

Possible to remove Workbook window title bar? Or other ways to arrange multiple workbook windows.
 

This is barely tested but have a go. Strongly suggest only deploy it if you
can follow it and know how to correct anything that's not right!

Run NoCaptions() to give the activeworkbook three captionless windows
Run ResetAllCaptions() to reset Captions to all windows


Option Explicit

Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA"
( _
ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA"
( _
ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long _
) As Long
Private Declare Function DrawMenuBar Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" ( _
ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hWnd2 As Long, _
ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long
Private Declare Function GetClassName Lib "user32" Alias "GetClassNameA" ( _
ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal nMaxCount As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function GetWindow Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal wCmd As Long) As Long

Private Const GWL_STYLE As Long = (-16)
Private Const WS_CAPTION As Long = &HC00000
Public Const GW_HWNDNEXT = 2

Sub ResetAllCaptions()

appSettings False
WorkbookCaptions True, 123456
FlashWindows

appSettings True
End Sub

Sub NoCaptions()
Dim i As Long
Dim numWindows As Long
Dim oldState As Long
Dim wb As Workbook, wbCaptions As Workbook
Dim wn As Window, wnA As Window

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.EnableEvents = False

Set wbCaptions = ActiveWorkbook
numWindows = 3

For Each wb In Workbooks
Set wnA = ActiveWindow
For Each wn In wb.Windows
If wn.Visible Then
wn.WindowState = xlMinimized
End If
Next
wnA.Activate
Next

For Each wn In wbCaptions.Windows
wn.WindowState = xlNormal
Next

Do While ActiveWorkbook.Windows.Count < numWindows
ActiveWindow.NewWindow
ActiveWindow.WindowState = xlNormal
Loop

Windows.Arrange ArrangeStyle:=xlVertical

WorkbookCaptions False, numWindows

FlashWindows

Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

Sub appSettings(bEnable As Boolean)
With Application
.EnableEvents = bEnable
.ScreenUpdating = bEnable
End With
End Sub

Sub FlashWindows()
Dim oldState As Long, i As Long
Dim nWB As Long, nWin As Long
Dim wnA As Window, wn As Window

ReDim arrwins(1 To Application.Windows.Count)
ReDim arrState(1 To UBound(arrwins)) As Long

For Each wn In Application.Windows
i = i + 1
Set arrwins(i) = wn
arrState(i) = wn.WindowState
Next

For i = UBound(arrwins) To 1 Step -1
With arrwins(i)
If .Visible And arrState(i) < xlMinimized Then
.WindowState = xlMinimized
.WindowState = arrState(i)
End If
End With
Next

End Sub

Sub WorkbookCaptions(ByVal bHasCaption As Boolean, winCnt As Long)

Dim hDesk As Long, hExcel7 As Long, cnt As Long
Dim sBuff As String * 16
Const cDESK As String = "XLDESK", cXL7 As String = "EXCEL7"


hDesk = FindWindowEx(Application.hWnd, 0, cDESK, vbNullString)

hExcel7 = FindWindowEx(hDesk, 0, cXL7, vbNullString)
cnt = 1

Do While hExcel7

Call GetClassName(hExcel7, sBuff, 16)
If UCase$(Left$(sBuff, Len(cXL7))) = cXL7 Then
If cnt winCnt Then bHasCaption = True
SetCap hExcel7, bHasCaption
End If

hExcel7 = GetWindow(hExcel7, GW_HWNDNEXT)
cnt = cnt + 1
Loop

End Sub

Function SetCap(hWnd As Long, bCaption As Boolean) As Long
Dim OldStyle As Long, NewStyle As Long

OldStyle = GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_STYLE)

If bCaption Then
NewStyle = OldStyle Or WS_CAPTION
Else
NewStyle = OldStyle And Not WS_CAPTION
End If

If NewStyle < OldStyle Then
SetWindowLong hWnd, GWL_STYLE, NewStyle
DrawMenuBar hWnd
End If

End Function

Note, some things appear to work slightly differently in 2003 & 2007

Regards,
Peter T


"minimaster" wrote in message
...
With "at once" I meant without a seperate title bar for each one.

Possible to remove Workbook window title bar? Or other ways toarrange multiple workbook windows.
 

Excellent it works nicely without problems under XL2003. Looks like I
missed to find the right window in my previous attempts. Thx again
great work!