How to Open only UserForm of an excel macro from batch file

Question

I\'m trying to open the UserForm1 of an excel macro through batch file. I\'m able to open that but excel is also getting opened along with that. I want only UserForm1 to be

Answer 1

In case someone wants to run a userform "alike" a stand alone application:

Issues I was facing:

1. I did not want to use the Workbook_Open Event as the excel is locked in read only.
2. The batch command is limited that the fact that (to my knowledge) it cannot call the macro.

I first wrote a macro to launch my userform while hiding the application (based on your comments above):

Sub open_form()
 Application.Visible = False
 frmAddClient.Show vbModeless
End Sub

I then created a vbs to launch this macro (doing it with a relative path has been tricky):

dim fso
dim curDir
dim WinScriptHost
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
curDir = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(".")
set fso = nothing

Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.application")
xlObj.Workbooks.Open curDir & "\Excels\CLIENTES.xlsb"
xlObj.Run "open_form"

And I finally did a batch file to execute the VBS...

@echo off
pushd %~dp0
cscript Add_Client.vbs

Note that I have also included the "Set back to visible" in my Userform_QueryClose:

Private Sub cmdClose_Click()
Unload Me
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_QueryClose(Cancel As Integer, CloseMode As Integer)
    ThisWorkbook.Close SaveChanges:=True
    Application.Visible = True
    Application.Quit
End Sub

Answer 2

There are several reasons (such as unhandled exceptions crashing your code before Application.Visible is reset to True) that it is not a good idea to do this but I'll assume you have considered these:

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize() 
    Application.Visible = False 
End Sub 

Private Sub UserForm_Terminate() 
    Application.Visible = True 
End Sub 

Private Sub Workbook_Open() 
    UserForm1.Show vbModeless
End Sub 

Answer 3

You need to show the UserForm in modeless mode and then hide the application.

try this

Sub open_form()
    Application.Visible = False
    UserForm1.Show vbModeless
End Sub

and either in a button you need to set it back to true or you can use the UserForm_QueryClose event

Private Sub UserForm_QueryClose(Cancel As Integer, CloseMode As Integer)
    Application.Visible = True
    ThisWorkbook.Close SaveChanges:=False
End Sub