I have an excel spreadsheet that when it's opening, tries to populate a combo box. On my PC, it fails but on another colleague it doesn't.
In design mode, I can click on the combo box with the following formula inside:
=EMBED("Forms.ComboBox.1","")
The combo box alias is Combo_bench and is called (and failed) in the macros like that:
Worksheets("Main").Combo_bench.Clear
Also when I tried to see the property in design mode, it seems it's the property of an unknown sheet in my workbook. It displays Sheet01 Worksheet.
I am not really used to excel macros, so is it something I am missing? I don't understand why it's working on my colleague computer and not mine.
Try this, most likely it will resolve the issue.
Exit all instances of Microsoft Excel.
Click Start, type %temp% in the Open box, and then press Enter.
In the folder that opens, delete the Excel8.0 folder and the VBE
folder.
Click Start, type %appdata%\microsoft\forms in the Open box, and
then press Enter.
Delete all the files in this folder.
Re-start Excel and try your macro
few Steps copied from: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2703186
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My workflow with VS Code is to always use project folders on projects. This works great, but there's one thing that's messing things up right now;
When opening just a single file from another project while working in another project, lets's say webpack.config.js, I use Windows Explorer rightclick to open that file in VS Code. However, this always opens the file in the currently open VS Code instance.
This adds the file from that other folder now to the memory of the previously opened files in the open project while it has nothing to do with that project.
When using the quick file open of VS Code now it happens a lot VS Code opens a file from that other folder, only because that outside file has been opened once while I was working on this project.
This is error prone as now it happens a lot, especially when working fast, that the wrong, for instance, package.json or webpack.config.js file gets opened, because VS Code now also suggests files that are outside this project. That's pretty frustrating and causes changes to be made in the wrong files pretty quickly.
I know we can clear the editor history and have to do it a lot now. But to me that's the other way around, doesn't solve the real problem and when not done often the issue remains.
So I want to get rid of this issue and have the following questions:
1) How can we change the 'Open with Code' rightclick menuitem in Explorer to open files always in a new instance of VS Code?
2) Is there a config settings to disable the behaviour that VS Code remembers files that are outside of the current work folder?
Thanks in advance, this thing is bothering me for quite some time now!
How can we change the 'Open with Code' rightclick menuitem in Explorer to open files always in a new instance of VS Code?
I assume you are a Windows user. You can edit the context menu behavior from Regedit.
Follow the below steps:
Press Windows + R
Type regedit and press OK
Go to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\VSCode\command in regedit
Add -n parameter to the command like below
It will help you to open every file in a new window when you use Open with Code.
For your second question, Is there a config settings to disable the behavior that VS Code remembers files that are outside of the current work folder?
Open VS Code settings
Search window.openFilesInNewWindow
Make it off to on like below
With this configuration, you can't open new files in the current workspace therefore technically you prevent VS Code remember outside files. Not directly but it helps.
I don't like how "recently opened" files are shown in VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P). I think OP is describing this behavior...
The behavior to remember "recently opened" files causes me problems when I mistakenly open a temporary/copy of my file, i.e.
C:/users/temp/code.js
... instead of the true file (i.e. located inside the currently-open VS Code project)
C:/git/source-control/code.js
...my confusion happens because because both files are listed among the options when I use Quick Open Ctrl+P and type "code"
For me , the Quick Open list also has the answer, any "recently-open" files should have an "X" icon on the right side. You may need to hover your mouse over the file you want to remove.
Click the "X" icon to "Remove from recently open". Quick Open will always be able to find files in your current project, even if you remove them from recently-open:
Please note I don't have access to regedit as suggested in the accepted answer; my answer here does not require regedit
I've just started with Visual Studio Code.
One thing I find really strange is, if my code compiles to an *.exe, and I select it in the explorer, VS Code tries to "open" it, as if it was a text file, and then complains it's a binary file.
Ideally, it should do nothing when I select it, and I should have to easy way of running it if I want, like "double-click" or some option in context menu. I don't want to hide the .exe, I just want VSCode to know it cannot edit it, so it shouldn't try.
[EDIT] In case someone wonders why I'd single-left-click on something where that click "makes no sense", it's because I've spent the last 15 years using an IDE where that does nothing except select the file in the explorer, and so I got into the habit of click on things while I'm "thinking about it", for example when I'm talking about this file to someone else. That's a hard habit to get rid of, in particular since I'm still using that IDE in my "day job".
As far as I know, this is not possible. There aren't any settings to control this and extensions can't block an editor from opening.
An extension COULD automatically close any tabs that were opened for a .exe file. So if you clicked on it and a tab opened, the extension could close it. I don't know if such an extension exists.
Otherwise you can create a feature request on github: https://www.github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/new
Here's a demonstration of the feature in IntelliJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtnI2doW6XE)?
In case the video isn't viewable, basically the user presses a key-combo, and a dialog box pops up that will reactively response and filter based on the string the user starts to type in. It will show classes and files (and much more) matching what you've typed in. I won't go in to all the details, as I'm not looking for an exact match to this functionality -- I'd be happy if it just searched based on file name for starters! Anything to prevent me from having to browse for a filename in the project Explorer to open the file in vs code when I want to switch to the given file.
I saw How do I search for files in Visual Studio Code? - for me (on Linux) Ctrl-E just shows the file I currently have open under the project explorer (useful sometimes, but not what I'm looking for).
Cmd + P opens a search bar for files (doc),
Cmd + T opens a search bar for symbols (doc),
Are you just looking for CTRL-P That brings up a file list. Which is searchable. You can then tab down and right arrow opens up that file. Enter will open a split editor on the file.
Also, if you CTR-p and then type ? you will get a list of keys you can hit such as to "Go to Symbols" and much more in your file or workspace.
And look at CTRL-R it probably does exactly what you are looking for as far as files go.
I've seen how to open a new File explorer, e.g. explorer.exe /select,$path and select files in that new window, but how would I do this with an existing File explorer window, i.e. tell File explorer to select certain files, as if the user had clicked and highlighted those files?
I love Powershell, honestly I use it even when I know another language would be better. But this is no job for Powershell. I don't know to what end, you are "selecting files" in Explorer for, but it may be possible to accomplish your end goal without utilizing the GUI. If for some reason I don't understand you actually want to do what your are asking about in your question, I would use autoit to simulate key presses or clicks.
I want to know why does Microsoft word don't allow multiple instance of a file. Say i have opened something.doc, once it has opened then i clicked the file something.doc again it doesn't open another instance but opens the existing instance of the file. I would love to have a concrete reading material about this. Can anyone provide? thanks a lot!
Doesn't seem like an issue to me but just a settings problem as illustrated on some forumns. Try doing the below hack which if for Office 2007:
My Computer
Tools
Folder Options
File Types
Choose XLS
Go to Advanced
Uncheck "browse in same window" in advanced window.
Then highlight Open
Edit
Make sure in the Action box it says &Open
Make sure in the application used to perform action it says:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" "%1"
Check the box next to use DDE
Remove anything that is in DDE Message box and DDE Application Not Running box.
Make sure the application box says: EXCEL
And in the Topic box it says: System