They appear to do different things...
The first gets a reference to the activesheet, the second (ignoring the
duplicate app reference) gets a reference to the first sheet of the first
workbook.

Can you provide some context around what you want to do?

Tim


"Jack" <replyto@it wrote in message
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Which one is better (safer) way to do:

1.
If moExcelApp.Workbooks.Count 0 Then 'when any sheet is opened
Set moExcelWS = moExcelApp.ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet
End if

or

2.
If moExcelApp.Workbooks.Count 0 Then 'when any sheet is opened
Set moExcelWS = moExcelApp.moExcelApp.Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1)
End if

Jack