author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP. You'll find even more practical techniques from Jan Karel on his ınternet site: post provides detailed instructions to prevent auto-open and Workbook-Open events from running. a fulltime developer I oftentimes open files containing VBA and want to be able to run code. At the same time I sometimes want to prevent Workbook_Open event code or an Auto_Open macro from running. This little article shows you how to achieve that. 2010 security set to low or trusted document you have set your macro security to "Enable All Macros" or you have already set the document to trusted or the document is in a trusted folder, click File, Open, select your file and hold down the shift key when you click the Open button: 1: Selecting the file from the File, Open dialog (Excel 2010) course your file might be listed in the Most Recently Used files (MRU) list. In that case, hold shift when you click the file in the list: 2: Clicking the file on the MRU (Excel 2010) so will prevent the Workbook_Open event from firing and the Auto_Open macro from running. security set to prompt your document is not in a trusted folder, has never been set to be trusted and macro security is set to something other than enable all macros to run, you’re able to repeat what I've shown above. if you open such a document, Excel will show the security bar. In this situation however, due to you holding down shift, Excel shows this window: 3: Enable macros dialog (Excel 2010) you held down the shift button when you clicked the file in the MRU or when you clicked the Open button, you'll be able to now just click "Enable macros" and no Automacros will run. 2007 security set to low or trusted document you have set your macro security to "Enable All Macros" or you have already set the document to trusted or the document is in a trusted folder, click File, Open, select your file and hold down the shift key when you click the Open button: 4: Selecting the file from the File,
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