Hide Personal Macro in VBA Project Explorer

Although I hide the perosnal macro workbook in Excel, it still appear in the VBA project explorer.

How to hide it in the VBA project explorer as well ?

Thanks.

"DavidGold" <DavidGold.1uepue_1125119108.316@excelforum-nospam.com> wrote in
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> Although I hide the perosnal macro workbook in Excel, it still appear in
> the VBA project explorer.
> How to hide it in the VBA project explorer as well ?

Hi David,

There's no way to hide a standard Excel workbook like Personal.xls
(which is just a hidden workbook, choose Window/Unhide from the Excel menu
and you'll see it) or add-in from the Visual Basic Editor Project Window.

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You can hide it - but the user can still unhide, the macros will also be
visible. I use the following method in the workbook open event, to close
the Personal.xls if there is one.

' if user has a personal.wks in xlstart directory - close it!
Dim wb As Workbook
For Each wb In Application.Workbooks
If UCase(wb.Name) = "PERSONAL.XLS" Then
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
wb.Close
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End If
Next


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Nigel



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> Although I hide the perosnal macro workbook in Excel, it still appear in
> the VBA project explorer.
>
> How to hide it in the VBA project explorer as well ?
>
> Thanks.
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You can't hide it, but you could protect it so that it can't be viewed*.

With that project selected (in the VBE):
tools|VBAProject Properties|Protection tab
give it a nice memorable password (and lock it for viewing)

*Be aware that this kind of protection can be broken pretty quickly--but it will
keep the casual user out of your code.



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> Although I hide the perosnal macro workbook in Excel, it still appear in
> the VBA project explorer.
>
> How to hide it in the VBA project explorer as well ?
>
> Thanks.
>
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