Ghost buttons ???

I have a problem that I call ghost buttons that appear when I run certain routines.

During various routines I hide the workbook, and then run a progress bar which increases the progress until the routine is finished and then unhide the workbook. When I run these routine, any buttons that I may have clicked on prior to running the selected routine, will appear momentarily in the (Blank) hidden workbook page and then go away.

I have tried many different routines to stop this from occurring, such as:
stopping screen updating
making all button invisible as the routine is ran.

It does not seem to matter what I do, the ghost buttons appears at the beginning in the Hide workbook window.

Has anyone ever seen this, or do you have any suggestions that may keep this from happening.

Thank you, I will give the first idea a try, the second would be more difficult as I have probably in excess of 50 active X controls spread across multiple sheets.

I tried the idea of selecting a sheet that does not have any buttons before hiding my WB, but that did not work. I also tried using this code

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and the reverse where False is changed to True. It does work well in hiding the activeX controls, but I still get the ghost shadows when hiding the workbook.

After a little more research and seeing other comments about the downfalls of using active X controls, then I agree with you that form controls would be better. So, I have a lot of work ahead of me to rebuild this WB with button form controls. I only have about 98 of them spread out across multiple sheets... so it will take me awhile. Lesson learned, unfortunately the hard way.

Thanks AlphaFrog.