Making a Hidden App Visible

What do you mean the hidden app can not be made visible?

To make a hidden app visible, you can type into the immediate window:

Application.Visible = True

and hit Enter.

How did it get invisible.
In these cases I use:

  with getobject("E:\OF\example.xls")
     
  end with

Which offers me the opportunity to switch between visible/not-visible whenever I like, because there's always a connection to this workbook.

In other cases you should use

workbooks("E:\OF\example.xls").windows(1).visible=true

Let me explain better. I have two excel sessions running,,, session A and session B.Session A contains two Workbooks and Session B contains one Workbook. For some reason, at the session level, Session B will become "B.Visible=false", or unavailable. When this happens any code that refers to session B will indicate the the object has not been set. A sample of my declarations is as follows:

Public xlLINKx As Excel.Application
Public xlPicasso As Excel.Application
Public Pcso As Workbook
Public LinkUP As Workbook
Public Crystal As Workbook
Public LKD As Worksheet
Public IQL As Worksheet

xlLINKx and its workbook LinkUP and the worksheet LKD become invisible since the session in which they reside becomes invisible.
The only way to correct this is to reboot.

The only code I use in the program that refers to the word visible is in the following subroutine:

Sub Open_xlLINKx(File_name As String, gotosheet As String)
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Set xlLINKx = New Excel.Application
On Error Resume Next
xlLINKx.Visible = True 'toggle sessions
Set LinkUP = xlLINKx.Workbooks.Open(FileName:=File_name, UpdateLinks:=3)
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub

I just do not understand what is happening.

It looks intriguing.
Why don't you use

Sub Open_xlLINKx(File_name As String, gotosheet As String)
  with GetObject(File_name)
    .windows(1).visible=true
    .sheets(gotosheet).activate    
  end With
end sub

instead of:

Sub Open_xlLINKx(File_name As String, gotosheet As String)
  Application.DisplayAlerts = False
  Set xlLINKx = New Excel.Application
  On Error Resume Next
  xlLINKx.Visible = True 'toggle sessions
  Set LinkUP = xlLINKx.Workbooks.Open(FileName:=File_name, UpdateLinks:=3)
  Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub

snb,

I will try this on my next revision... will let you know. I looks like it will improve communications and is a cleaner approach.

Steve