Problem:
The VBA IDE in Word 2007 is opening by itself. When this happens, its window does not show any menu or toolbar, and only the window's title bar appears, along with the "Normal - NewMacros (Code)" module (see screen cap below.) I am not sure what is triggering it, but at some point I just find that an instance of "Microsoft Visual Basic - Normal" is on my Taskbar. I'm running an up to date installation of W8.1/64.
More detail:
When I first run Word, and manually open VBA, the IDE appears normally, with the usual menu and toolbar chroming. But at some point, after closing VBA, it reopens without the usual chroming.
Existing macros run normally, and new macros can be created (recorded in realtime), edited, and run normally. The spontaneous appearance of the IDE is (AFAICT) not related to either running or creating macros (which I do frequently), nor with saving the code module (though saving the module, or exiting VBA, using the menu or toolbar is impossible once they disappear: no menu or toolbar operations are possible when this happens, and only exiting and restarting Word corrects it.)
A possible cause?
Some weeks back I downloaded and used a Word template that lets you edit Word's recently used files list, found at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_reso ... _addin.zip" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. I initially found that template in this thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/offi ... 61a760d035" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I don't really suspect that has anything to do with the odd behavior I'm seeing, but since using that template (which creates a temporary add-in that is removed once the template is closed) is the only remotely unusual thing I've done with my normal Word environment (which I maintain scrupulously) I thought I'd mention it. I have not been using this template at times when this problem shows up.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/bFuVOk6.png)