See Also Properties Methods Events
Represents the entire Microsoft Excel application. The Application object contains:
Using the Application Object
Use the Application property to return the Application object. The following example applies the Windows property to the Application object.
Application.Windows("book1.xls").Activate
The following example creates a Microsoft Excel workbook object in another application and then opens a workbook in Microsoft Excel.
Set xl = CreateObject("Excel.Sheet")
xl.Application.Workbooks.Open "newbook.xls"
Remarks
Many of the properties and methods that return the most common user-interface objects, such as the active cell (ActiveCell property), can be used without the Application object qualifier. For example, instead of writing Application.ActiveCell.Font.Bold = True
, you can write ActiveCell.Font.Bold = True
.