Hi,

New to the usergroup. Question: I'm trying to create an excel macro that
will pickup filename from a spreadsheet and open the file in Words
document, then do more formatting changes to the document. I seems to be
stuck at trying to open a Words document from an excel macro. Any
thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Isham


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Try this... You need to reference your project to the "Microsoft Word ?.?
Object Library". In the VB Editor select Tools - References ...

Sub OpenWordDoc()
Dim appWord As Word.Application

Set appWord = New Word.Application
With appWord
.Visible = True
.Documents.Open "D:\Test.doc"
End With
Set appWord = Nothing
End Sub

--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Isham Hamin" wrote:

Hi,

New to the usergroup. Question: I'm trying to create an excel macro that
will pickup filename from a spreadsheet and open the file in Words
document, then do more formatting changes to the document. I seems to be
stuck at trying to open a Words document from an excel macro. Any
thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Isham


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In A1 put, for example:
C:\third.doc
actually the path and filename of any Word doc. Then enter and run this
small macro:


Sub macro2()

Dim s As String
Dim ss As String
Dim sss As String

ss = "cmd.exe /c "
s = Cells(1, 1).Value
sss = ss & s
x = Shell(sss, 1)
End Sub

You will be in control in Word.
--
Gary's Student


"Isham Hamin" wrote:

Hi,

New to the usergroup. Question: I'm trying to create an excel macro that
will pickup filename from a spreadsheet and open the file in Words
document, then do more formatting changes to the document. I seems to be
stuck at trying to open a Words document from an excel macro. Any
thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Isham


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