Vba window activate

JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. How do I activate a window in excel VBA code? Thread starter dan Start date Jul 9, Joined Jul 9, Messages I have the following code, however, it gives me an error Object required Error the last line where I try to activate a window. How do I do this so I don't get the error?

Activate End Sub. Excel Facts. Click here to reveal answer. Joined Jun 10, Messages You can use the activate method of Workbook instead. Click to expand You are using Application. Now, however, I'm having trouble with a line of code in my Macros which was obviously inserted by the Record Macro function, since I'm in no way familiar with it and did not program it in that looks like this: Code.

Re: windows. Perhaps if you posted some more of the code we could give some pointers. Here is a more detailed overview of my code: Code. Where and how are you running this code? Here's a small example of what I mean about not needing to select.

Mike :rock:. User Menu Login Registration. Here is the example syntax to activate a Workbook using VBA. You can use either a Workbook name or Workbook number. When we specify the workbook number if it the order of the workbooks which you are opening. Please see the below VBA codes to activate a Workbook. Please see the below VBA codes to activate a Workbook using workbook number. In this example we are activating a workbook 2 in the currently opened workbooks collection.

Please see the below VBA codes to activate a currently running macro workbook. This will be very useful while dealing with the multiple workbooks. ActiveWorkbook VBA object is very usefull while automating tasks and working on currently active Excel WorkBook in the active workbook window.

If you ignore the ActiveWorkbook object while refering any other object like sheet, range or chart, VBA will treat the ActiveWorkbook as the current Workbook by default. For example: Following are the two macro statements both will refer the active ActiveWorkbook. We can assign and set ActiveWorkbook to an object and refer at any place of the procedure. We activate different workbooks to access the file objects and do some activity. For example, we activate Book While accessing the different objects in different workbooks, we generally activate the Workbook and do perform some operation with Excel VBA Macros.

What if you need to wok on the same workbook Book1. Instead, you can use VBA Thisworkbook object to deal with your macro file. For example the following macro will do print the some value at A1 of Sheet 1 of ThisWorkbook. Note: Always better to use the Workbook name, instead of workbook number.