visual Basic and excel

[srv656s]

Does anyone know how to run an excel macro from visual basic? I have a lot of macros I want to use in a program I'm writing, and I can't figure out how to run the macros outside of Excel.

For instance: I want to push a button in a visual basic 6.0 project, then excel would open and the macro would run.

Thanks for any help

Shawn

[Tom Morales]

Shawn -
I'm guessing that working out of pure Visual Basic isn't that different from cross-application VBA. Here's an example of code I would use to open Excel from Word:

Sub excelsession()
Dim xlapp As Excel.Application
'start excel...
Set xlapp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
'now let's see it...
xlapp.Visible = True
'Add a workbook...
xlapp.Application.Workbooks.Add
'or, open a specific workbook..
xlapp.Workbooks.Open "test.xls"
End Sub

For this to work, one must first load the Excel object models into your active library.

I hope that gives you something to start with. Good Luck.
Tom

[srv656s]

Thank you for the quick answer!

Is there any place i could go to figure out how to work objects??? I think this is where I'm getting hung up.

Shawn

[Ivan F Moala]

On 2002-02-18 16:24, srv656s wrote:
Thank you for the quick answer!

Is there any place i could go to figure out how to work objects??? I think this is where I'm getting hung up.

Shawn

Hi Shawn, in order to run macros from the excel object just reference like;

'Run the "ExcelMacroTest" procedure stored in the workbook
xlapp.Application.Run "YourNameOfTheMacroToRun"


HTH

Ivan