Hi
There are probably neater ways of doing it but I tend to use

err.clear
On error Resume next
Set ObjectName = myobject
On Error goto 0
If err.number = 0 then
'myobject exists and I can use it
End if

err exists while excel is open so must be cleared first.

regards
Paul

On Jan 24, 8:20*am, ell wrote:
how is the syntex in vba excel to check: if object exists, or is
object in collection exists.

I tried this code in vba excel :

if (oElement.Attributes("backGroundColor")) then
... do something

but got error.

in VBA code there are some common object instance,checking
like: isObject(obj)=0
or: obj=null
or: *obj is nothing
or empty
none of above works ??
only something like on error resume next ?? (not very common)
why excel VBA is different from other VBA like MS-Access ?

el