[AccessD] Modules and libraries in Office

Holy cow, is that a mish mash or what?  The point of my questions was to try
to find a common ground where code could be stored and run from all of the
various office applications.  Not to be it would seem.  It does seem bizarre
that if I had some function that should be able to run in any of the apps I
have to save the same thing in 5 different places so that Access, Excel,
Word, Powerpoint and Outlook could use it.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 2:03 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Modules and libraries in Office


In Excel you can store functions and modules as Public in .xla  files. 
Old Excel pre 97 didn't store the code in xla it
looked like an mde file. Matter of fact you can call these .xla files 
from Access. I have called functions from the Excel Statistical and 
Financial Analysis Packs.

In Outlook 2000  and any code that you create in the Outlook VBA 
environment is stored in a file named VBAProject.otm.
Even though you can copy the VBAProject.otm file, that's not a good way 
to distribute Outlook macros company-wide. The recommended method is to 
create an Outlook or Word  COM add-in. Talk to Shamil he has been 
upgrading com addins to dotnet. http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vb.htm
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/comaddins.htm

Word uses templates either user or workgroup (to be shared) in a 
specific folder
A template  contain macros or other customizations such as toolbars, it 
works better from some locations than others.
Again these com addin's can be used in place of macro's.
see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/index.htm

Just for future reference this method is also partially available under 
word and excel

Under the Tools/References menu in the VBE, you need to check the Microsoft
Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3 object library. Microsoft
Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3 C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA6\VBE6EXT.OLB


The following code exports the contents of the Code Module to a file called
test.bas. This can be run from Word or Excel

Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents("Module1").Export("test.bas")
I think you can also import code this way but never tried it or got it 
to work or something.

John W. Colby wrote:

>In Access we use MDA/Es to store libraries of reusable code.  Is there 
>an equivalent for Word / Excel / Outlook etc (the rest of Office)?  Do 
>these other platforms have references like we do in Access?  If so, can 
>you reference an MDA/E to use code in it?
>
>John W. Colby
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: 
>http://folding.stanford.edu/
>
>
>  
>

-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada



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