Alison Balter’s Mastering Microsoft Access 2002 Desktop Development

Chapter 22. Automation: Communicating with Other Applications

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• Defining Some Automation Terms 906

• Declaring an Object Variable to Reference Your Application 907

• Creating an Automation Object 909

• Manipulating an Automation Object 910

• Early Binding Versus Late Binding 910

• Controlling Excel from Access 912

• Closing an Excel Automation Object 917

• Creating a Graph from Access 917

• Controlling Word from Access 922

• Controlling PowerPoint from Access 927

• Automating Outlook from Access 930

• Controlling Access from Other Applications 933

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Why This Chapter Is Important

Windows users have come to expect seamless integration between products. They are not concerned with what product you use to develop their application; they ...