Here's the situation....
I have a Word doc open and an Excel workbook open. I can easily toggle between the 2 open files by pressing Alt&tab. What I'd like to do is to set up a macro in Word to copy some text , then toggle to my open excel workbook and paste it after I do a "cntl+F". Eventually there will be quite a bit more to this macro, but I'd like to start here. Can anyone help?
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... set up a macro in Word to copy some text , then toggle to my open excel workbook and paste it ...
Look up SendKeys in the VB/VBA doco.
Look up SendKeys in the VB/VBA doco.
Thanks for the answer back. I've done that, and it works quite well. As I add more code to this macro though, it doesn't really like the fact that I start in MS Word and go to Excel. Once I toggle with the SendKeys "%{TAB}" function, how do I then make the Excel Workbook the active file? I've been told that SendKeys is a poor way to automate code. Any other suggestions?
Thanks for the answer back. I've done that, and it works quite well. As I add more code to this macro though, it doesn't really like the fact that I start in MS Word and go to Excel. Once I toggle with the SendKeys "%{TAB}" function, how do I then make the Excel Workbook the active file? I've been told that SendKeys is a poor way to automate code. Any other suggestions?
Oh, definitely! SendKeys is very much a "quick and dirty" way to drive another application. If you can use automation to do the job, it'll be much more reliable.
I'm a bit rusty on how, but try doing some searching on a mixture of terms like VB and Excel and automation here at TheScripts, you should find quite a bit of information.
okay, I appreciate the help!
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