Microsoft KB Archive/166101

= XL97: Visible Property Does Not Apply to All CommandBars =

Article ID: 166101

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q166101



For a Microsoft Excel 2002 version of this article, see 291068.

For a Microsoft Excel 2000 version of this article, see 213716.



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to hide or show a commandbar in a Visual Basic for Applications macro you may receive the following error message:

Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)':

Method 'Visible' of object 'CommandBar' failed



CAUSE
This problem occurs if you attempt to hide or show a Commandbar to which the Visible property does not apply.



WORKAROUND
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For more information about the support options that are available and about how to contact Microsoft, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;CNTACTMS

The following example loops through all of the CommandBars and displays the CommandBar name in a message box, without generating the error message mentioned earlier.

NOTE: The "MsgBox ComBar.Name" line in the macro below is for demonstration purposes. There are over 80 CommandBars that use the Visible property, so you will receive over 80 message boxes. Remove this line if the macro is taking too long to run. Sub Command_Bars On Error Resume Next For Each ComBar In Application.CommandBars ComBar.Visible = False MsgBox ComBar.Name Next ComBar End Sub An On Error statement was inserted before the For Each loop. If you run the macro without the On Error statement, you receive the error message mentioned earlier.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
Not all of the CommandBar items support the Visible property. The following list contains CommandBar items that are known to generate the error message mentioned earlier, when used with the Visible property.   Index   CommandBar 19     Query and Pivot 20     Workbook tabs 21     Cell 22     Column 23     Row 24     Cell 25     Column 26     Row 27     Ply 28     XLM Cell 29     Document 30     Desktop 31     Nondefault Drag and Drop 32     AutoFill 33     Button 34     Dialog 35     Series 36     Plot Area 37     Floor and Walls 38     Trendline 39     Chart 40     Formula Bar 41     PivotTable Context Menu 42     Query 43     Query Layout 44     AutoCalculate 45     Object/Plot 46     Title Bar (Charting) 47     Layout 70     Shapes 71     Inactive Chart 72     Excel Control 73     Curve 74     Curve Node 75     Curve Segment 76     Pictures Context Menu 77     OLE Object 78     ActiveX Control 79     WordArt Context Menu 80     Rotate Mode 81     Connector 82     &Wizard 83     Add Command 84     Built-in Menus 85     System These CommandBars are used for shortcut menus and items such as the current list of sheets in a workbook.

Additional query words: XL97 xlvbmigrate

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprogramming KB166101

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