We have several thousand historical MS Word documents with embedded MS
Excel Worksheets.

This data predates a relational database system which now manages all
this data. Sound familiar!

We need to create a spreadsheet which has a row for each embedded MS
Excel Worksheet with columns for specified values. We have no problem
aggregating multiple spreadsheets into a single spreadsheet.

We have been unable to automatically extract The MS Excel worksheets
from the MS Word documents.

We have tried two general approaches:
Approach 1, Obtain Control of the Excel object from VB running inside
Word
Approach 2, Select the Excel object inside Word and save as a separate
file

Sample code for both approaches below.

Comments indicating which lines of code are working and not working.


Approach 1, Obtain Control of the Excel object from VB running from
Word

'We launch the code from a form which will later loop through the 1000+
documents.

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()



'Start a new instance of Microsoft Word with the target document

Dim oWordDoc As Word.Document

Set oWordDoc = GetObject("C:\SourceDocument.doc", "Word.Document")

'This works, Word opens with the document.



Dim intCount As Integer

intCount = oWordDoc.InlineShapes.count

' This works, we see the single OLE object embedded.



Dim oInlineShape As InlineShape

Set oInlineShape = oWordDoc.InlineShapes.Item(1)

'This works, we obtain control of the OLE object.



'Dim oExcelSheet As Excel.Worksheet

'Set oExcelSheet = oInlineShape

'This DOES NOT work.

'Have tried several means to cast to an Excel object.

'Am not sure this type of cast can be done at all, and, if the object
is a Worksheet.



'Once we have it as an object we might manipulate it in place to get
the fields

' Or, at minimum save it to disk as an Excel document.

'oExcelSheet.SaveAs ("C:\SourceDocument.xls")



'Clean up here.



End Sub





Approach 2, Select the Excel object inside Word and save as a separate
file

'We launch the code from a form which will later loop through the 1000+
documents.

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()



'Start a new instance of Microsoft Word with the target document

Dim oWordDoc As Word.Document

Set oWordDoc = GetObject("C:\SourceDocument.doc", "Word.Document")

'This works, Word opens with the document.



Dim intCount As Integer

intCount = oWordDoc.InlineShapes.count

' This works, we see the single OLE object embedded.



Dim oInlineShape As InlineShape

Set oInlineShape = oWordDoc.InlineShapes.Item(1)

'This works, we obtain control of the OLE object.



oInlineShape.OLEFormat.DoVerb (wdOLEVerbShow)

'This works, opens the OLE Excel object in Excel. Very cool.




'But now we attempt to gain control of the Excel Worksheet which was
opened

' and can not seem to find it.



'The idea here is to find the Active Excel window which was opened by
the code above.

Dim xlWindow As Excel.Window

Set xlWindow = xlApp.Windows.Item(1)

'The Window count is zero and there are no items to grab.

xlWindow.Activate



Set xlWorkbook = xlApp.ActiveWorkbook

'This too is empty

xlWorkbook.SaveAs ("C:\SourceDocument.xls")

xlWorkbook.Close



'Clean up here.



End Sub


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