Creating a New Workbook

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To create a new workbook in Visual Basic, you use the Add method. The following procedure creates a new workbook. Microsoft Excel automatically names the workbook BookN, where N is the next available number. The new workbook becomes the active workbook.

Sub AddOne()
    Workbooks.Add
End Sub

A better way to create a new workbook is to assign it to an object variable. In the following example, the Workbook object returned by the Add method is assigned to an object variable, newBook. Next, several properties of newBook are set. You can easily control the new workbook using the object variable.

Sub AddNew()
Set newBook = Workbooks.Add
    With newBook
        .Title = "1995 Sales"
        .Subject = "Sales"
        .SaveAs filename:="95Sales.xls"
    End With
End Sub