Stuart McLachlan
lexacorp at global.net.pg
Tue Apr 1 18:36:02 CST 2003
> The object model is NOT VBA, it is a layer on TOP of VBA. > An integrated set of objects that know how to be a Word > document, a spreadsheet, or a database FE. Once you > reference the word object inside of Access, you have the > same capabilities that you have inside of Word directly. > Reference that Word object inside of Excel and you have > the same set of capabilities as you had in Access (or > Word) - to manipulate DOCUMENTS. > So, you have VBA which is the same exact set of keywords > and structures. VBA is available from all of the Office > applications. Inside of each application, you have an > object model which is NATIVE to that application, which is > not part of VBA but is called from VBA. AFAIK, these > object models, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint etc are > also available to call from VB (the REAL VB programming > language). Which further demonstrates the interface line > which separates the Office Application object model from > the VBA language. > Not just VB. You can program the object model from many different languages - any that speak COM (including PBWin of course <vbg>). The Methods, properties etc remain exactly the same. The language you use can be completely different to VB/VBA. -------------------------------------- This Email Was brought to you by WebMail A Netwin Web Based EMail Client http://netwinsite.com/webmail/tag.htm