Question

I have a spreadsheet that uses ActiveX. I realized that if a user selects No when prompted for ActiveX the first time and then saves the worksheet, the worksheet will never prompt for the user to enable ActiveX again.

However, the worksheet I am developing requires ActiveX to be enabled. So my question is:

If an user selects No the first time when prompted to enable ActiveX and saves the worksheet. How can I still prompt for ActiveX on the next re-open of the worksheet? In other words, how can I always prompt for user to enable ActiveX?

Answer 1

There is a login macro in my worksheet that would throws an error if ActiveX was not enabled. So, if ActiveX was not enabled, I isolated and caught that error and forced a save and shut down of the worksheet.

Code:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
  ' ...some code...
  On Error GoTo InitializeLoginErrorHandler:
    DoLogin

  Exit Sub

  InitializeLoginErrorHandler:
    MsgBox "ActiveX has not been enabled. ActiveX must be enabled for worksheet to function. Restart worksheet and enable ActiveX." _
      & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "worksheet will now close without saving any changes."
    ThisWorkbook.Close savechanges:=False
End Sub

Private Sub DoLog()
  ' Login to system through linked .dlls and .ocx. This portion requires ActiveX to be enabled. 
End sub