Taskbar

tucker · June 29th, 2004, 10:29 AM

Hello All,

This may sound like a strange request but does anyone know how to hide the application from the task bar but still have it running.

Is there a vba shell command which will do this??

Cheers

gcianfanelli · July 5th, 2004, 04:06 AM

From VB/VBA you can try this:

Code:

Dim xlApp as Object
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

This creates a "hidden" instance of the Excel application. To make it visible (ie. appear in the taskbar) you would need to set the Visible property to True, eg.

Code:

xlApp.Visible = True

abdusalam · July 5th, 2004, 04:26 AM

Hi,

If you are using VB 6 then set 'ShowInTaskbar' = False of form property in design mode...
or
appprocessid = Shell (app.path "full file path" ,vbHide)

and if you are using xlvba then gcianfanelli is right

thanks,

Stay Beautiful,
Abdul Salam