VBA editor auto-deletes spaces at the ends of lines

Question

Is there a way to convince the VBA editor in Excel to stop auto-formatting lines to remove the space at the end when I pause in my typing for a quarter second?

Answer 1

I have had this same problem several times recently, and has driven me crazy.

After reading this post all the different fix-ups mentioned (none worked for me), I recalled I have been playing lately with Internet Explorer Control, opening Internet Explorer from VBA.

This is mentioned in some of the answers in this post.

This got me in the right path and, in order to fix it, I had to first delete all iexplore.exe instances (alt+control+delete), closed Excel and open excel again. (iexplore.exe had been opened invisible from the VBA code, and I didn't know they were running)

That fixed the bug.

I have been programming quite heavily with VBA for over 4 years, and never had this problem.

Just a couple of weeks ago I started using IE control, and I started getting this problem...so in my case I can only assume the bug is directly related to the IE control.

I am running both excel 2003 and 2007 in same PC at the same time, and the problem only happens with excel 2007.