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Excel 2013, SDI and modeless userforms

Hi Everyone,

With Excel 2013 we also got new document windowing in Excel; Microsoft decided to make Excel behave the same as Word:

from MDI:

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Excel 2010 MDI interface showing two workbooks

The Excel 2010 MDI interface

to SDI:

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Excel 2013 SDI interface showing two workbooks

The new SDI interface of Excel 2013

This causes havoc when one shows a modeless userform which should stay on top of all Excel windows:

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Excel 2013 SDI can cause a userform to disappear

Excel 2013 SDI can cause a userform to disappear

I’ve devised a way to prevent this problem and written an article about how this was done.

Enjoy!

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse

www.jkp-ads.com

 

 

 


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