Hmm .... good question ... don't know!

I'm almost sure for a while all was working fine if I added the parameter
Temporary:=True to commandbars.add(). But now that doesn't help.

At the moment I can't say why it fails with no other visible workbooks, but
the reason the OnTime fixes is because the close code is not being called
from the button.

(btw the issue is if there are/not other *visible* workbooks)

Regards,
Peter T

"JeffTO" wrote in message
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Hi Peter

Works perfectly - thank you soooo much

And yes I do create the toolbar on open and delete on close

The actual live code is more complex than the sample I gave but the
problem was the same - so now that I have it working in the sample - I
am going to implement in my live code

Can you tell me why yours works and mine didnt? I am curious to know
what the difference is.

Thanks again - exteremely helpful

Jeff