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    Inherited Spreadsheet with hidden control of select buttons

    I've inherited a set of Spreadsheets which are linked together.
    The "opening" Spreadsheet, launches all the others and presents a selection box with a pull down menu and a couple of buttons. Everything else is frozen.
    Selecting one or the other button launches a second box with another set of buttons.
    Selecting one or the other buttons will start a series of calculations followed by a report being printed., and the selection box disappears.
    I need to get to the code being run from these boxes so I can change how data is copied from one of the spreadsheet to another.
    I've looked through the macros and can find the one that starts the calculations but in the header it says something to the effect that the initial data transfer as been completed, but no references to how it was done.
    I think I need to "un-hide"/unprotect the initial selection boxes to see whats going on, but don't know how.
    Suggestions would be welcome.
    Thanks in advance

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    Re: Inherited Spreadsheet with hidden control of select buttons

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    Re: Inherited Spreadsheet with hidden control of select buttons

    Ok I'll give it a go.
    I don't want to post all the spreadsheets as there's a lot of proprietary data in them, but I can post the "starting" spreadsheet which does show the selection boxes.
    If you go to the debug mode, the last line in the macro is a statement that is "frmChooseDataSource.Show" which I don't recognize. is this a clue or not?
    I had to zip the file to get it to fit, but that seems to have worked.
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    Re: Inherited Spreadsheet with hidden control of select buttons

    Hello Fuelsguy,

    You password protected the zip folder. Send me the password by private message.

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    Re: Inherited Spreadsheet with hidden control of select buttons

    Sorry about that, didn't realize I was protecting the file. Tried to do it without a password but apparently didn't succeed.
    Here's an open version. this forum's file attachment system is different from my other forums, I'll get the hang of it soon.
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