Hide Excel (The Entire Application)

August 15th, 2004 | Categories: Excel.mod | Tags:
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There may occasionally arise a need to hide all of excel, a good time may be while displaying a splash screen, or possibly coding a security variation.

Put this in a module:

Public Sub HideMyExcel()

Application.Visible = False
Application.Wait Now + TimeValue("00:00:05")
Application.Visible = True

End Sub

Sidenote: I used a timer so we can see Excel again, don’t forget to set Visible=True at some point!

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  1. Tom
    January 21st, 2010 at 16:15
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    That is what I use to, but if you are opening another Excel time during your 5 seconds your excel file will also appear before the 5 seconds are over…

    Has anybody a good idea to solve this problem?

    Tom

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