Excel vba

Control Excel from Word using VBA in Microsoft Excel
VBA macro tip contributed by Erlandsen Data Consulting offering Microsoft Excel Application development, template customization, support and training solutions
CATEGORY - Applications - Word, Outlook in VBA VERSION - All Microsoft Excel Versions
The two example macros below demonstrates how you can send information to Excel from Word
(e.g. creating a new workbook) and how you can retrieve information from Excel (e.g. reading information from a workbook).
Note! Read and edit the example code before you try to execute it in your own project! Sub CreateNewExcelWB() ' to test this code, paste it into a Word module ' add a reference to the Excel-library ' create a new folder named C:\Foldername or edit the filnames in the code Dim xlApp As Excel.Application Dim xlWB As Excel.Workbook Dim i As Integer Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application") xlApp.Visible = True Set xlWB = xlApp.Workbooks.Add ' create a new workbook ' or 'Set xlWB = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\Foldername\Filename.xls") ' open an existing workbook ' example excel operations With xlWB.Worksheets(1) For i = 1 To 100 .Cells(i, 1).Formula = "Here is a example test line #" & i Next i If Dir("C:\Foldername\MyNewExcelWB.xls") <> "" Then Kill "C:\Foldername\MyNewExcelWB.xls" End If .SaveAs ("C:\Foldername\MyNewExcelWB.xls") End With xlWB.Close False ' close the workbook without saving xlApp.Quit ' close the Excel