Article ID: 155051
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q155051
SYMPTOMS
When you step through a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro, the
following message may appear:
Can't enter break mode at this time
If you click Continue, you can continue stepping through the macro.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs when both of the following conditions are true:
- You programmatically add an ActiveX control to a worksheet.
-and-
- You step through the macro.
NOTE: If you click Continue, Microsoft Excel inserts an ActiveX
control, and you can continue stepping through the macro.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem when troubleshooting a macro that adds an
ActiveX control, use one of the following methods.
Method 1: Use another troubleshooting technique
For example, use a
Debug.Print statement or a watch expression.
Method 2: Programmatically add a non-ActiveX control to the worksheet
Programmatically add a non-ActiveX control to the worksheet
instead of an ActiveX control. You can find Non-ActiveX controls
on the Forms toolbar.
Microsoft Excel 97 provides non-ActiveX controls for
compatibility with earlier versions of Microsoft Excel.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
In Microsoft Excel 97, you can add an ActiveX control to a worksheet to
make a custom application. The ActiveX controls that you can add to a
worksheet appear on the Control Toolbox toolbar. To display the Control
Toolbox toolbar, point to Toolbars on the View menu, and then click
Control Toolbox.
Although many of the ActiveX controls are similar in form and function
to the controls on the Forms toolbar, the ActiveX controls are also
available in UserForms in the Visual Basic Editor.
REFERENCES
For more information about ActiveX Controls, click the Index tab in
Microsoft Excel Visual Basic Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Toolbox"
topic.
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