XL97: Worksheet Events Don't Occur After Clicking Link

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel 97, when you click a hyperlink in one worksheet (Sheet1, for example) that is linked to a location in another worksheet (Sheet2, for example), the following symptoms occur:

• The Worksheet_Deactivate subroutine that is attached to Sheet1 is not run.

  -and-

• The Worksheet_Activate subroutine that is attached to Sheet2 is not run.

CAUSE

These problems occur because worksheet events, such as Worksheet_Deactivate and Worksheet_Activate, do not occur when you click a hyperlink.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Excel 97, you can create a hyperlink that links to a Web page on the Internet or a local intranet, to other documents on your local hard disk or on a network server, or to other locations in the same workbook. For example, you can create a hyperlink in a cell in one worksheet that activates a specific cell in another worksheet when you click the hyperlink. If you create this type of hyperlink and click it, the other worksheet is activated. However, when you do this, events that are attached to either of the worksheets do not occur.