I need to open an excel spreadsheet from within a
VBscript and then run a macro within that spreadsheet
before closing it back down again.
Can anyone provide some code that would do this.

Thanks

DISCO.

Try

Set xl = CreateObject("Excel.application")

xl.Application.Workbooks.Open "yourworkbookpath\yourworkbook.xls"
xl.Application.Visible = True
xl.Application.run "'yourworkbookname.xls'!macronametorun"

Set xl = Nothing


This should do exactly what you need.

HTH


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Just an extra note to the last post.

Make sure that you add the code to close the workbook and application
in the excel sheet macro so that the focus is then returned to the rest
of your vbscript.

I normally use
ActiveWorkbook.Save
Application.Quit

HTH


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Hi,
This code helps but I now have the problem that the
workbook I am closing is asking if I would like to save
the changes that have been made by the macro.
The answer is no but I'm not sure how to put this into
the code.
Do you know how i can do this ??

Thanks


-----Original Message-----
Just an extra note to the last post.

Make sure that you add the code to close the workbook
and application
in the excel sheet macro so that the focus is then
returned to the rest
of your vbscript.

I normally use
ActiveWorkbook.Save
Application.Quit

HTH


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.

you can use the
application.displayalerts = false
that will make excel use defualts instead of ask you what you want to
do. If you do not want it to save the sheet then do
xl.close false


Hope that helps.

Keith
www.kjtfs.com


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Disco,

You can get round this by using

ActiveWorkbook.Close False

' closes the active workbook without saving any changes


instead of

activeworkbook.save


HT

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I assume you really mean VBScript and not VBA, so here goes;

Here is a sample VBScript. Save it in a standard text file with a .VBS
extention.
This one creates an Excel object, opens a workbook, sets a value, runs a VBA
routine, then tides up and closes down.

Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.application")
xlObj.Workbooks.Open "C:\Byg\textfile\TextFileReformat.xls"
xlObj.Range("NoOfCharsPerLine").Value = 50
xlObj.Run "ReadFromTextFile"
xlObj.ActiveWorkbook.Saved = True
xlObj.ActiveWindow.Close
xlObj.Quit


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Andy Wiggins
www.BygSoftware.com
Home of "Save and BackUp",
"The Excel Auditor" and "Byg Tools for VBA"



"Disco" wrote in message
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I need to open an excel spreadsheet from within a
VBscript and then run a macro within that spreadsheet
before closing it back down again.
Can anyone provide some code that would do this.

Thanks

Andy wrote:
[b]I assume you really mean VBScript and not VBA, so here goes;

Here is a sample VBScript. Save it in a standard text file with a
.VBS
extention.
This one creates an Excel object, opens a workbook, sets a value,
runs a VBA
routine, then tides up and closes down.

Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.application")
xlObj.Workbooks.Open "C:\Byg\textfile\TextFileReformat.xls"
xlObj.Range("NoOfCharsPerLine").Value = 50
xlObj.Run "ReadFromTextFile"
xlObj.ActiveWorkbook.Saved = True
xlObj.ActiveWindow.Close
xlObj.Quit


[b]

Don't forget to
Set xlObj = Nothing

at the end......

Keith
www.kjtfs.com


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