Excel 2013 VBA 7.1 Workbook Activate Problems

Question

I have 2 workbooks open and during the course of a macro am switching between them. The macro has developed a problem where it seems to disregard the workbook.activate command when running. If I set a breakpoint at the line with the activate command
and step through it, it works fine.
I have tried activating using ThisWorkbook,Worksheets().activate, Workbook(xx).activate, Windows(xx).activate. I have also tried minimizing the other window which I do not want activated, but this causes the main macro to freeze.
This is only a problem at one point in my macro and it works properly elsewhere.

Answer 1

I have 2 workbooks open and during the course of a macro am switching between them. The macro has developed a problem where it seems to disregard the workbook.activate command when running. If I set a breakpoint at the line with the activate command
and step through it, it works fine.
I have tried activating using ThisWorkbook,Worksheets().activate, Workbook(xx).activate, Windows(xx).activate. I have also tried minimizing the other window which I do not want activated, but this causes the main macro to freeze.
This is only a problem at one point in my macro and it works properly elsewhere.
There is no need to "switch" between the workbooks, just assign a reference to them, and access the methods and properties for each workbook.
Dim wb1 as Workbook, wb2 as Workbook
'assuming both workbooks are already open
Set wb1 = Workbooks("Name of First WB")
Set wb2 = Workbooks("Name of Second WB")
Also unless you really need to observe what the macro is doing during execution, there is no reason to have multiple Workbook.Activate statement. Just have one final one at the end of the macro to activate the workbook you really want to see at the end of the
macro execution.