Microsoft Excel Pop-up opening behind the *.xlsm document

[Pinaceous]

Good Day All,

I'm working with an Excel file, ie New Excel.xlsm which is providing this message box upon its opening:

My problem is, is that this message box pop-up remains in the background behind the Excel document and does not come forward, which is causing a lot of confusion to say the least!

Now, how do I through VBA, provide this pop-up to come forward, so the user can act upon it? &/or to suppress it from occuring?

Mind you this is only happening when the document is being opened.

Please let me know of your creative solution(s) to help solve this issue from happening.

Thank you!

Respectfully,
pinaceous

 

[mdd16]

I am also facing same problem and its not only happening with vba forms I created, its also happening to other excel message box windows.. When I restarted windows and excel, the problem went away for a while, but retuned soon thereafter.

I guess it's an Excel bug. Very annoying..

I am using Mac+Parallels for excel. So one thing has helped me is that I now create a new desktop only for excel. That way to see the background windows is tad bit easier.

 

[Pinaceous]

Hi mdd16,

That particular error I traced back to a subroutine that I was using, so in essence I was causing that error.

I was running a subroutine that dealt with modifying the DV Input Message.

Once I figured out that this subroutine was causing that error I had to get rid of it.

Try turning off any macros that you have in the AutoOpen to double check where that self-generated error message is coming from and let me know!

Thanks,
pinaceous

 

[mdd16]

Hi
I disabled the AutoOpen routine and problem still exists.

There is no error message as such.. But the message boxes for Update Links operation are appearing but not in front of the open file. Similarly from several of my macros I have message boxes and user forms that open as part of code execution. But those all appear behind the file. I am on Mac and If I do four finger swipe up I see the messages waiting for action there, but they are not visible as they should be.

 

[Candyman8019]

I had the same issue. I changed a registry key and the issue was resolved. Details in this thread. Knowledge Article View HCL - Customer Support

 

[mdd16]

I had the same issue. I changed a registry key and the issue was resolved. Details in this thread. Knowledge Article View HCL - Customer Support

You are lucky.. mine still the same.. and it's not only an Excel problem, even windows own windows are hidden.. what an irony.

What's even more surprising is that the fault is erratic.. within moments of one user form not appearing, next time you click it opens in front.. then gone again next time.

 

[Candyman8019]

Sounds like that could be a challenge to troubleshoot. When I was troubleshooting for my own purposes, I did see a few threads that said to do a Windows Repair...but I never did see any confirmation as to whether or not that worked.

 

[mdd16]

The problem was apparently caused by Parallels. Had to pay ransom money by upgrading to next version and now all works fine. It almost like they seed such bugs and won't resolve until an upgrade is purchased.