Excel newWorkbook event not firing

[Guest]

I'm having some trouble with consistently getting Excel to fire the
newWorkbook event when I open Excel. It seems that on some computers,
opening excel (which opens book1.xls by default) invokes the
newWorkbook event while on others, it does not. This doesn't appear to
be an issue of version as I have two workstations with the same version
of excel (11.6560.6568) sp2 with one firing the newWorkbook event when
I open Excel and one not.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jeff,
If you haven't already looked, the first thing that comes to mind is the
Excel macro security setting. Go to Tools > Macro > Security... and make sure
that security is not set to "High."

 

[Guest]

No, unfortunately it's not that simple. I've set macro security to low and
it still doesn't fire off.

To make sure I'm very specific, this isn't a problem if I click CTRL-N for a
new workbook once I'm inside of Excel. Creating a new workbook this way is
just fine & dandy. The newWorkbook event is fired every time.

However, the workbook shell that is opened by default by Excel when the
excel.exe application is launched does not appear to invoke the normal events
on a client-by-client basis.... A workaround is to open Excel with the /e
switch but I don't want all my customers to do this. Per Microsoft, the /e
switch "forces Excel to start without creating a new workbook(Book1.xls)."

So, it's something about that new workbook that excel creates automatically
that is different. I just need a bit of help figuring out why that workbook
invokes the newWorkbook methods on some machines and not others.