Open Workbook And Worksheet Vba. You cannot work in Excel without opening the Excel Workbooks or Excel file. This probably sounds quite confusing, but we will make it clear.
Learn how to Browse for a filename path, trap it in a variable or worksheet cell and also how to open the other workbook in Excel VBA. As with the worksheet, clicking the right hand drop down gives you a list of events for the workbook and clicking on these will enter the code declaration for that event. Workbook events are actions or occurrences associated with the workbook, to trigger a VBA code or macro.
In Excel VBA, an object can contain another object, and that object can contain In other words, Excel VBA programming involves working with an object hierarchy.
With VBA, you can do a lot of stuff with a workbook object - such as open a specific workbook.
Insert a new module from Insert menu. Sub OpenWorkbook() 'Open a workbook. 'Open method requires full file path to be referenced. The following VBA code opens the workbook.