Starting up Excel remotely... VBA does nothing!

vesc

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Hi, I've managed to create a system by which I can start-up a new session of Excel and have it open a file. When the file is loaded I execute a macro in that file. Thanks to member of this site who gave me most of the code required to do this! I have several of these that I "invoke" from a "central / control" workbook. They all work fine except one. The one that doesn't work contains:

...
debug.assert False

Range("A1").Select
...

The debug statement breaks me into the code after the remote invocation. However the Range selection statement does nothing. After this statement there is a sequence that should be copying and pasting some info... none of it executes. The debugger happily shows each statement as being executed, but nothing happens.

If I open this file manually and execute the macro... it works properly!!!

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance,

Vesc
 

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Ah, missed a DoEvents call, which ends up changing the active workbook!

Apologies for the inconvenience.

-Vesc
 
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