workbook_activate() and DisplayAlerts problem!!

[Andreysen]

I don't know if I'm going crazy or if my Excel sheet is. I have the following macro in an empty workbook:

Private Sub workbook_activate()
MsgBox Application.DisplayAlerts
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
MsgBox Application.DisplayAlerts
End Sub

Pretty straight forward. Now, when I open another workbook in order to activate and deactivate the books, the following happens:
Once you jump to the new workbook and back the method engages and a box pops up saying "true". After hitting OK another box pops up saying "false". Just what I expected. When you now jump over to the other workbook and back again, the first box says "true" again and the second one "false" of course.
So jumping back and forth seems to set the Application.DisplayAlerts to true again. Can that be?
What am I missing here? I tried it on different PCs once with XL2000 once with XL2003. Same thing.
Try it out and see for yourself. Thanks for your help,
Andre

P.S.: I just realized the following:
When I type
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
and
MsgBox Application.DisplayAlerts
into the immediate window the msgbox displays "true" also... what's going on??

 

[xenou]

Hi Andreysen.

Looks like this property applies while a macro is executing, not to the application permanently.

From the help files on displayalerts:

Remarks
The default value is True. Set this property to False if you don’t want to be disturbed by prompts and alert messages while a macro is running; any time a message requires a response, Microsoft Excel chooses the default response.

If you set this property to False, Micorosoft Excel sets this property to True when the code is finished, unless you are running cross process code.

When using the SaveAs method for workbooks to overwrite an existing file, the 'Overwrite' alert has a default of 'No', while the 'Yes' response is selected by Excel when the DisplayAlerts property is set equal to True.

HTH

 

[Andreysen]

Strange

Hmm, I thought I read somewhere especially to make sure to switch it back to true at the end because otherwise it'll stay that way but I guess not...
Thanks for the hint. I guess I'll have to work with something like workbook_change() or workbook_calculate().

ANDRE

 

[xenou]

I always made sure to do this too .. I was also surprised by the help on this property.