Controlling an MS Excel file

[azizrasul]

What API code can I use to set the focus on an open MS Excel with a dialog box? I want to press Shift C to close the dialog box.

 

[sijpie]

Is this for an VBA project or for a different language? ie are you running this from an Office application?

If it is an office application than you can loop through any open userforms:

    Dim UForm As Object

    'Hide any open modal sheet in order to show wait form
    For Each UForm In VBA.UserForms
        If UForm.Visible = True Then
            UForm.Hide
'            Debug.Print UForm.Name
        End If
    Next

 

[azizrasul]

I am running the code from an MS Access db. When the MS Excel file opens and it happens to a non activated MS Office version, the Microsoft Office Activation Wizard dialog box appears. The code in MS Access hangs until the Close button is pressed on the dialog box. Hence the requirement for a API solution.

Once the dialog box closes and the MS Excel file is closed, I can then produce a message box to say that the user does not have an official MS Office copy as normally the MS Excel file will be in invisible mode and as a genuine copy of MS Office does not produce the dialog box, then there is no problem. The above exercise places the MS Excel file in visible mode to check the existence of a genuine MS Office copy.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[Micron]

cross posted with answers

Getobject - UtterAccess Forums

 

[azizrasul]

Using GetObject doesn't work as the code still hangs. Hence the API route.