[AccessD] Excel Macro Automation from within Access

I also make extensive use of Excel templates that I call from Access,
populate and save as regular .xls files. This allows you to extensively
format a workbook ahead of time and use it over and over just adding
different data.

Jim Hale

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Moss [mailto:jim.moss at jlmoss.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 4:38 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Excel Macro Automation from within Access


Mark,

You can output the formatted Excel file from Access and let Excel write
the formatting VBA for you. Start Excel and turn on macro recording, then
format the sheet your way. When finished stop recording and save. Open the
macros menu item, copy the code from your macro, and paste into an Access
module. Open your query as a recordset and loop through the rows setting
your excel field to the rs field. I'll email an example to you if you
like.

Jim

> I have a need to run Excel macro code from within Access VBA.
> Basically, the code logic flows as follows:
> 1. Export Access report as a new Excel file (DoCmd.OutputTo
> acOutputReport, strXLName, acFormatXLS, , True)
> 2. Run Excel macro (from within Access VBA) to format the Excel file
> accordingly.
>
> Does anyone have any sample code and/or resources related to this logic?
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Boyd
> I/S Supervisor
> McBee Associates, Inc.
>
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