Excel® 2013 VBA and Macros

20. Automating Word

In This Chapter

Using Early Binding to Reference the Word Object

Using Late Binding to Reference the Word Object

Using the New Keyword to Reference the Word Application

Using the CreateObject Function to Create a New Instance of an Object

Using the GetObject Function to Reference an Existing Instance of Word

Using Constant Values

Understanding Word’s Objects

Controlling Form Fields in Word

Next Steps

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access all use the same VBA language. The only difference is their object models. For example, Excel has a Workbooks object and Word has Documents. Any one of these applications can access another application’s object model as long as the second application is installed.

To access Word’s ...