Automatically close Workbook after inactivity

Question

I created a Macro that closes the WB after some time of inactivity. It works perfect if I manually open the file, but if I use another macro from a different WB to open the

Answer 1

try adding a stop statement to your workbook_open to test if the event is even being triggered

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
  start_Countdown
  Stop
End Sub

this would be a brute force way the to run the open Event from the Calling Workbook.

Application.Run(ActiveWorkbook.name & "!Workbook_Open")

add this just after you open the Workbook.