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    Excel to Open Application VBA (not cut/paste)

    I want to send, using a command button, 4 separate cell values as a string (numerical only) from Excel 2000 (open) to another open program in Windows7 (in this case an Arduino micro controller program) but could be any other open program on the Window OS like notepad etc. Code will include the...
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    select already running application and press a key using VBA

    Hi, I have a problem that may not be possible. I am running an excel program - I would like to call a function that selects an already running program (VLC media player in this case), then presses a specific key (x in this case), and then returns to excel. Is this at all possible? It would be...
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    Which program has the focus?

    I wrote a program that opens PDF files, copies their content into Excel then closes the PDF. This program has to open over a thousand files but after the 186th file it fails to close the PDF and then crashes because I have too many files open. I am closing Acrobat with this command. code...
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    check if application open before activating

    I use the following code to activate a window, Can anyone help with a script to check first if the application is open or not so that I don't get an error message if it isn't open. I have tried on error goto etc... but I get a msgbox popup still which interferes with my other scripts...

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