Opening other applications in vb window

[shavon]

Hello:

Happy Wednesday.

Is it possible to open an application such as Word or Excel in a form within
my VB App? Like how PDF files open in the Internet Explorer window with the
ability to use the Acrobat tool bar. Is there some control that will give
me this ability? Please lead me in the right direction and provide an
example is possible. Thank you.

 

[johnwm]

Assuming that you've got a full version of Word on the tartget machine, just set a reference to Microsoft Word 10.0 Object library (or whichever version you're running).

Same applies to Excel.

Then you can set up object variables for Word.Application, Word.Document etc.

See VBHelp for more details. This has also been covered in this forum several times, so you might try a search on "Word" to get you started Let me know if this helps
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[SemperFiDownUnda]

What you are talking about is an insertable object. You can also do it with OLE Container.