If you're anything like me, you often have several workbook projects open at one time, a mix from barely developed to pre-deployment beta.

And again, if you're as forgetful and flighty as I am, you have run into a situation where you've entered debug part way through some faulty code, been distracted by something else and forgotten that the code which was running had disabled screenupdating, or events, or similar. Then switched blithely to another workbook, and been puzzled as to why your events aren't firing, or why nothing is calculating as it should... then spent ages pondering over perfectly good code, only to eventually remember that your last routine aborted and left events disabled. Or a cryptic progress message in your status bar. Or no error messages displaying ever again...

Well, maybe it's only me. But, in case you recognise this, here's my tip!

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Something like this saved to your Personal Workbook, with a nice little icon in the QAT (quick access toolbar) - means that when light begins to dawn that you carelessly left the application somewhat undone, you can restore more normal settings with a simple click.

Tweak to suit. Laugh at me for needing it. It's all good! I find it handy




Coming next: my QuickQuietClose macro, to shut down other people's hideously invasive event laden workbooks when they try to take over...