Open a workbook as another Excel process

[Guest]

Hi,

Is there way to made a workbook (workbook A) always open in a seperate Excel
process if another Excel process is running already via VBA?

Is there way to prevent other workbook from openning inside (WOrkbook A) via
VBA?

Thanks

 

[Sharad]

If you lanuch the workbook using shell command to start excel, then it
will be open in seperate execel process. e.g. if the name is
workbooA.xls, located under My Documents in C:\ drive, you could use
below Shell code:

myIDnum = Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE
C:\My Dcouments\WorkbookA.xls", vbNormalFocus)

Is there way to prevent other workbook from openning
inside (WOrkbook A) via
VBA?

I don't think so. If the user double clicks on an excel file it will
open in the last excel process started.

Sharad

 

[Stephen Bullen]

Hi Augustus,

Is there way to prevent other workbook from openning inside (WOrkbook A) via
VBA?

Application.IgnoreRemoteRequests=True

will stop Explorer opening new files in that instance of Excel - but be sure to
set it back to False when you've finished with it!

Regards

Stephen Bullen
Microsoft MVP - Excel
www.oaltd.co.uk