If you click the Exit Design Mode button in the Visual Basic Editor, you may switch to Microsoft Excel from the Visual Basic Editor.
NOTE: You may notice that Microsoft Excel also becomes active if you click any toolbar that is floating in the Visual Basic Environment.
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This behavior occurs after you start the Visual Basic Editor from Microsoft
Excel by using the Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, or Microsoft Windows NT taskbar.
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To work around this behavior, use either of the following methods to
activate the Visual Basic Editor:
- In Microsoft Excel 2000, press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic Editor.
-or-
- If the Visual Basic Editor is running, press ALT+TAB in any open
program to switch between the program and the Visual Basic Editor.
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
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