Excel.Application.Interactive.md

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Application.Interactive property (Excel)	vbaxl10.chm133150	vbaxl10.chm133150	Excel.Application.Interactive	fe69429e-8715-770c-3e7a-c06a10a8e850	04/05/2019	medium

Application.Interactive property (Excel)

True if Microsoft Excel is in interactive mode; this property is usually True. If you set this property to False, Excel blocks all input from the keyboard and mouse (except input to dialog boxes that are displayed by your code). Read/write Boolean.

Syntax

expression.Interactive

expression A variable that represents an Application object.

Remarks

Blocking user input prevents the user from interfering with the macro as it moves or activates Excel objects.

This property is useful if you are using DDE or OLE Automation to communicate with Excel from another application.

If you set this property to False, don't forget to set it back to True. Excel won't automatically set this property back to True when your macro stops running.

Example

This example sets the Interactive property to False while it's using DDE in Windows and then sets this property back to True when it's finished. This prevents the user from interfering with the macro.

Application.Interactive = False 
Application.DisplayAlerts = False 
channelNumber = Application.DDEInitiate( _ 
 app:="WinWord", _ 
 topic:="C:\WINWORD\FORMLETR.DOC") 
Application.DDEExecute channelNumber, "[FILEPRINT]" 
Application.DDETerminate channelNumber 
Application.DisplayAlerts = True 
Application.Interactive = True

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