Excel 2013 worksheet activate

Question

I have an issue with activating a sheet from a user form, the same code works fine in Excel 2003 to Excel 2010, doesn\'t work with Excel 2013.

This is how to simply

Answer 1

The workaround for the above Excel 2013 worksheet activation through automation bug is below (c#):

public static void ActivateSheetAndWorkaroundExcel2013VBASheetActivationBug( Worksheet oSheet2Activate )
{
    if( oSheet2Activate.IsNull() )
        return;

    oSheet2Activate.Activate();

    // Excel 2013 has problems activating worksheet through automation
    // https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=excel+2013+worksheet+activate+problem+
    // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18726141/excel-2013-worksheet-activate
    // 
    // The only way to reset the Excel 2013 state is to hide/show the active window
    if( Application.Version == "15.0" )
    {
        Window oActiveWnd = Application.ActiveWindow;
        oActiveWnd.Visible = false;
        oActiveWnd.Visible = true;
        oActiveWnd.Activate();
    }
}

Call that helper method instead of directly calling oSheet.Activate(). You're welcome:-)