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Auto update function in VBA?
Hello experts,
Can someone advice me how to write an auto-update routine in Excel VBA? The purpose is that when a button is pressed, the Excel app looks for updates in a given URL, compares version numbers and downloads the file if a newer version is found. Thanks for your help! Ed van Wijngaarden |
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Auto update function in VBA?
It sounds as if you want to Shell out to an external app.
From VBA help, do a search for the Shell function As for the external app: I quite like wget http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html -- Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel "E.J. van Wijngaarden" wrote in message ... Hello experts, Can someone advice me how to write an auto-update routine in Excel VBA? The purpose is that when a button is pressed, the Excel app looks for updates in a given URL, compares version numbers and downloads the file if a newer version is found. Thanks for your help! Ed van Wijngaarden |
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