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Excel Com port communication
Thanks for your help Richard! I found Cheapcomm.zip at this website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jacksilver/software.htm- malforg
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- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
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Excel Com port communication
Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing the DLL that you use! The only things that I've found that work are to (1) install a VB application that uses MSCOMM, or (2) install and uninstall VB itself. After either of these steps, the MSCOMM ActiveX control works. So, if you have a more direct way to...- malforg
- Post #4
- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
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Excel Com port communication
Can anyone help with communicating to a COM port through Excel (on a machine that does not also have Visual Basic installed)? I've tried downloading MSCOMM -- Excel recognizes the reference to MSComm32.ocx, but I get an error when trying to use it ("Run-time error '429': ActiveX component...- malforg
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- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
