Excel Workbook Open Event macro doesn't always run

Question

I\'ve got a Workbook_Open event macro (and it\'s in ThisWorkbook) that doesn\'t always run.

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Answer 1

I thought that this was the most cogent article on this problem (which is a long-standing never explained completely erratic bug that Excel exhibits). (dead link)

In short, in many cases it's a timing thing caused because the workbook is trying to calculate stuff when it opens and that gets in the way of the Workbook_Open event. The way to test on yours to see if that it for this situation, is to first rename any UDFs or Macros called by cells so that they won't get called and see if that changes anything.