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Opening Excel from Access
Didn't know whether to post this here or under Access.
Basically, how do you open an Excel worksheet from Access in code? Also, the Excel worksheet uses Macro's and is read only/protected. Is it possible for the warnings to be surpressed? i.e. Instead of the user being asked whether to allow macros, these are automatically allowed. And instead of accessing to enter password to modify workbook, 'read only' is automatically chosen. Thanks |
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Opening Excel from Access
To use Excel in Access:
In your VBA "References" include a reference to the Microsoft Excel Object Model. Then you can use code as illustrated below: Dim XLApp as Excel.Application, XLBook as Excel.Workbook, XLSheet as Excel.Worksheet Set XLApp = New Excel.Application Set XLApp.Visible = True ' (only if you need the user to see Excel - otherwise you can process everything invisibly) Set XLBook = XLApp.Workbooks.Open(WorkbookFilePath) Set XLSheet = XLBook.Sheets("Sheet1") etc... Basically anything possible in Excel VBA is done in your Access module as long as you refer it back to XLApp. When done be sure to close everything and clean out your object variables, or you may leave your Excel session running in the background: XLBook.Close XLApp.Quit Set XLSheet = Nothing Set XLBook = Nothing Set XLApp = Nothing As for the other parts of your question: - You can open the book read only: the full syntax of the Open method for the workbook is: expression.Open(FileName, UpdateLinks, ReadOnly, Format, Password, WriteResPassword, IgnoreReadOnlyRecommended, Origin, Delimiter, Editable, Notify, Converter, AddToMRU) So you can use the parameters (in this case, ReadOnly) to specify how to open the workbook - see help for more info. - Running macros: I don't know any way to open Excel from code and bypass the macros prompt - doing so would defeat the purposes of macro security anyway. I have seen the same question asked before in this forum, so you could search and see if you can find a solution. HTH! "Steve Price" wrote: Didn't know whether to post this here or under Access. Basically, how do you open an Excel worksheet from Access in code? Also, the Excel worksheet uses Macro's and is read only/protected. Is it possible for the warnings to be surpressed? i.e. Instead of the user being asked whether to allow macros, these are automatically allowed. And instead of accessing to enter password to modify workbook, 'read only' is automatically chosen. Thanks |
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Opening Excel from Access
I think you must have tried already, but forgot to set Excel to visible.
Once you set it to visible all remaining code is same as in excel macros. You can use below code. Sub olExcelOpen() Dim exApp As Excel.Application Dim myBook As Excel.Workbook Set exApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application") exApp.Visible = True Set myBook = exApp.Workbooks.Open(FileName:="Path to the file", ReadOnly:=True) myBook.RunAutoMacros xlAutoOpen End Sub Sharad "Steve Price" wrote in message ... Didn't know whether to post this here or under Access. Basically, how do you open an Excel worksheet from Access in code? Also, the Excel worksheet uses Macro's and is read only/protected. Is it possible for the warnings to be surpressed? i.e. Instead of the user being asked whether to allow macros, these are automatically allowed. And instead of accessing to enter password to modify workbook, 'read only' is automatically chosen. Thanks |
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