Curios bug with keyboard shortcuts?!?

xls_mycroft

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Hi all,

I stumbled across something odd: When opening a workbook in a macro that is triggered with a keyboard shortcut that includes the SHIFt key, the execution of this macro is ended directly after opening - without throwing an error. Running the same procedure normally (e.g. using a button or directly in VBE) or a keyboard shortcut without SHIFT everything works fine.

Example:

Code:
Sub test()
    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
    Workbooks.Open("c:\temp\Book1.xlsx")
    MsgBox "done"
    Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
    MsgBox "Error: " & Err.Number & ":" & Err.Description
End Sub

Running the above code via a keyboard shortcut that involves SHIFT will not produce any message box.

What I found so far:
* Same behavior across Excel 2003, 2007, 2010
* Shortcut: code execution only ends when SHIFT is part of the shortcut. Works with several letters.

Anybody has any idea where this is coming from?

Thanks for you help!
 

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