Note: If you have windows installed on a drive other than C you will need to change the paths in the code accordingly.
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You alter the paths to a file or application on your PC.
If you have extracted the code and are not using the attachment you will need to ensure that:.
Click one of the "Forms" buttons on the sheet.
Now select File/Close and Return To Microsoft Excel.
If you want, you can change the paths to anything else you want to open.
(If using XP, uncomment the lines that refer to XP (remove the leading apostrophes) and comment or delete the line directly below the currently commented one).
Copy and paste the code for any of the subs above into the Module.
In the VBE window, select Insert/Module.
Select Tools/Macro/Visual Basic Editor.
MsgBox "This will fail if you don't have Adobe Acrobat installed :o)"ĪctiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink "", NewWindow:=True 'ActiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink "c:\Windows\System32\Defrag.exe", _ 'NewWindow:=True '>ĪctiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink (ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\TestDoc.doc"), NewWindow:=TrueĪctiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink "C:\Windows\explorer.exe", NewWindow:=TrueĪctiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink ActiveWorkbook.Path & _ 'ActiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink "c:\Windows\System32\Cleanmgr.exe", _ 'NewWindow:=True '> In this example you can either open a Word document, an Access database, An Adobe Acrobat document, Windows Explorer, a Web page, or run either the Windows clean-up manager or the Windows disc defragmenter. All you need to know is the "method" and the path, and to ensure that you have a suitable program installed to "read" the given file. Private Sub WorkbookOpen () If so, insert a Stop statement right after this, i.e., Private Sub WorkbookOpen () Stop. Chances are you will see a Sub that begins. By simply programming a hyperlink to whatever it is you need to be run, it can be opened and run whenever you like by simply following the link. You can do this by right-clicking on the Excel icon at the left end of the Worksheet Menu Bar, selecting View Code. There may be times where you need to access something ordinary or even quite out of the ordinary when running your code. First, be sure that the Developer tab is visible in the toolbar in Excel. Unfortunately, OpenOffice can't support export VBA back to MS Excel files, so Export may be the important and interesting area in VBA interoperability.After running the code any required file, application, tool, etc. You can access the VBA environment in Excel 2016 by opening the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
Control APIs and events, support APIs and events of some usually used controls:.
Excel document APIs and events, which are used to operate the Spreadsheet document and handle the event of document.
VBA runtime library, including some VBA basic functions, there are more than 120 APIs:.
They are supported or partially supported in OpenOffice. This part lists the kinds of VBA APIs and events in VBA runtime library,Excel document APIs and events and Control APIs and events.
Attach and Enable all the Userform Controls events.
Support to import VBA Userform Controls.
Enable the Whole VBA Runtime Environment.
Attach and Enable to Run all the Workbook and Worksheet events.
Import VBA code in Modules, Dialog and Class Modules.
Is this the correct code for Access 2003 as it seems to be different code. Now we can import MS Excel 2003 and MS Excel 2007(xlsm/xlsb) with no modification, it includes: Hello there I am trying to get Access 2003 to open a particular word document using Visual Basic but when i enter your snippet of code and press F1 for help on keyword. We will classify VBA interoperability from three aspects: OpenOffice can run Microsoft VBA code natively, though there are some APIs of VBA that are not supported, or are only partially supported.įrom OpenOffice 3.0 to Apache OpenOffice 3.4, there are many improvements in VBA interoperability, such as import mechanism, API support and event supports in userform and controls. VBA is an implementation of Microsoft's Visual Basic language, an event-driven programming language which is built into most Microsoft Office applications.