Whats the Best Way to Run Excel Macro from VB

[Beatrix]

i wrote a VB apps link to excel and my way of doing it is through Shell and SendKey command from my VB Apps to excel. It runs fine however, i cant do other tasks while this application runs. Are there better alternatives on these. Will the ActiveX or OLE approach simplify things for me? How?

 

[Ivan F Moala]

On 2002-09-11 19:36, Beatrix wrote:
i wrote a VB apps link to excel and my way of doing it is through Shell and SendKey command from my VB Apps to excel. It runs fine however, i cant do other tasks while this application runs. Are there better alternatives on these. Will the ActiveX or OLE approach simplify things for me? How?

Set a reference to the Excel application object...this will expose all the class objects that you would normally use in excel VBA et all.

eg

creatobject("Excel.Application")

Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

 

[Beatrix]

thx ivan for the swift reply....can i run my excel macro with your suggestion? Can these macros be called from VB. Im using VB and havent tried VBA yet.

 

[Ivan F Moala]

On 2002-09-11 20:18, Beatrix wrote:
thx ivan for the swift reply....can i run my excel macro with your suggestion? Can these macros be called from VB. Im using VB and havent tried VBA yet.

Yes you can..you just need to reference it correctly eg.

Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlBook As Excel.Workbook

Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open "C:WorkMyFile.xls"

WkBk.Run "MyMacroName"