Can't enter break mode at this time

Question

This has been happening increasingly, when I have a sheets.add or sheets.delete in excel VBA. After searching and searching I finally found the official Microsoft support pa

Answer 1

Yet another Excel/VBA glitch.

When it happens to me when I click a button running a macro:

• I first try to directly run the macro from VBE,
• if it fails, then I put a breakpoint at the first instruction of the macro,
• if it still fails, I try both,
• or, after clicking the button and breaking on the first breakpoint, I do a single step (SHIFT F8) and then I can let debug run freely as usual (F5).

And so far I don't get this error anymore.

Probably not foolproof either but worth a try.