Comments on: Beginning VBA: Navigating the Object Model

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:00 +0000

I've been doing a lot of reading on Accessible content for people with disabilities. Blinking can cause seizures.
Excel can be hard enough without it causing a physical response.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:24:00 +0000

I would suggest taking out the blinking formatting. That would drive me absolutely nuts as a user, and if it is continually running, it will interfere with lots of useful code. Just use regular CF and trust the users to understand what it means.

By: Farooq

Farooq — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:22:00 +0000

Public RunWhen As Double

Sub StartBlink()
With Worksheets("Sheet1?).Range("A1?).Font
If .ColorIndex = 3 Then ' Red Text
.ColorIndex = 2 ' White Text
Else
.ColorIndex = 3 ' Red Text
End If
End With
RunWhen = Now + TimeSerial(0, 0, 1)
Application.OnTime RunWhen, "'" & ThisWorkbook.Name & "'!StartBlink", , True
End Sub

Sub StopBlink()
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1?).Range("A1?).Font.ColorIndex = _
xlColorIndexAutomatic
Application.OnTime RunWhen, "'" & ThisWorkbook.Name & "'!StartBlink", , False
End Sub

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This is the code that i am trying to run from excel.However when i run it i cant copy and paste if i have another excel file open and it is running this script.I need to have this running when the file is opened and it should not affect other excel files if they are opened.

Can someone help me out on this one?Thankyou.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:11:00 +0000

In your VB project, set a reference to Microsoft Internet Controls (c:windowssystem32shdocvw.dll). Declare and create a browser object:

Dim oBrowser As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
Set oBrowser = New SHDocVw.InternetExplorer

Make it visible and browse to a URL:

oBrowser.Visible = True
oBrowser.Navigate "www.peltiertech.com"

By: Patrick O'Brien

Patrick O'Brien — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:29:00 +0000

I've seen people make simple web browsers in Visual Basic. They generally use the Navigate method(?) to go to a page. This method is nonexistant in VBA. Is there a way to make a web browser in VBA? Thank you in advance for any input!

Pat

By: Nick Flyger

Nick Flyger — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:17:00 +0000

here is the Excel 2003 VBA object model online and interactive...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbaxl11/html/xltocOMMap_HV01049651.asp

Nick

By: Patrick Briggs

Patrick Briggs — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:41:00 +0000

Microsoft Excel Object Model is where I have found a diagram of the all the different Excel VBA objects. It's in the Help under Microsoft Excel Visual Basic Reference at the top and immediately above "What's New". I'm using Excel 2003.

I do have a question though. Why is it the Worksheets object/collection isn't showing on this diagram?

Is there a website on the web that diagrams the Excel Object Model better?

Regards,

By: Oli

Oli — Fri, 05 May 2006 12:33:00 +0000

"You release me baby!"

Awesome hard house tune...

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:44:00 +0000

The Excel object model is in the Excel help file. Look for the topic ‘Microsoft Excel Objects’. In version 2000 I’m running at work, it’s under Microsoft Excel Visual Basic Reference.

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:16:00 +0000

Tom: SET is used to assign an object to a variable, that's the only use that I know. If you try to assign an object to an object variable without using Set, you'll get error 91, Object or With not Set. If you don't declare your variable as an object variable, however, you won't get an error, just bad results. For instance

Dim Rng1 as Variant
Dim Rng2 as Range

Rng1 = Range("A1?)
Rng2 = Range("A1?)

Rng1 will work because it will take the default property (the Value property) of Range("A1?) instead of the object Range("A1?). Rng2 will give the error because it is explicitly data typed as an object so it expects an object and not a Value property.