XL: How to Use DAO to Create a New Microsoft Excel Workbook

• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel, you can use the Data Access Object (DAO) library in a Visual Basic for Applications macro to work with an external database. You can create a new Microsoft Excel workbook with DAO using the instructions included in this article.

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1. Use the OpenDatabase method to open a new .xls file.



2. Create a new table definition for the database.



3. Create a new field for the new table.



4. Append the field to the table.



5. Append the table to the database.

1. In Microsoft Excel 97, activate the module that will contain your subroutine. On the Tools menu, click References. In the list of Available References, select the checkbox next to "Microsoft DAO 3.5 Object Library". Then, click OK.
   
   In Microsoft Excel 7.0 for Windows 95, activate the module that will contain your subroutine. On the Tools menu, click References. In the list of Available References, select the checkbox next to "Microsoft DAO 3.0 Object Library". Then, click OK.



2. Create an empty folder called C:\Test.

Sample Macro

Sub CreateXLS()

Dim Db as Database
Dim Tbl as TableDef
Dim Fld as Field

    'Create and open an Excel 5.0 database
    Set Db = OpenDatabase("C:\Test\Book1.xls", False, False, "Excel 5.0;")

    'Create a new table definition for a table called NewTable
    Set Tbl = Db.CreateTableDef("NewTable")

    'Create a new field in NewTable and call it NewField
    Set Fld = tbl.CreateField("NewField", dbInteger)

    'Append the field to the table and then append the table to the
    'database
    Tbl.Fields.Append Fld
    Db.TableDefs.Append Tbl

    'Close the database
    Db.Close

End Sub 

Additional query words: 8.00 97 XL97

Keywords : kbprg kbdta kbdtacode xlloadsave xldao KbVBA
Version : WINDOWS:7.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto