[AccessD] Modules and libraries in Office

John,

Are you talking about the designers?

I thought you could have a common standard or class module
within the dll, and just pass in the Application object as Object.
Then just Select Case to perform the appropriate action.
I'll look again, but I'm pretty sure that's it.

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Michael R. Mattys
Mattys MapLib for Microsoft MapPoint
http://www.mattysconsulting.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
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Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 8:36 PM
Subject: RE: [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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
> 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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