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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

by Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Respond to Events in Excel

Chapter 2 discussed events in a general way and showed you how to create your own events. Excel introduced real events to its object library in 1997, and they are one of the key improvements that allow Excel applications to be truly interactive with users.

The most obvious events occur for the Workbook, Worksheet, and Chart objects since those objects include accompanying classes that you can view in the Visual Basic Editor (Figure 4-20).

Finding events in the Visual Basic Editor

Figure 4-20. Finding events in the Visual Basic Editor

You can list the events for Workbook, Worksheet, or Chart objects by clicking on the object and event listboxes in the Code window, or you can refer to Table 4-7.

Table 4-7. Events available from Excel objects

Object

Event

Application

NewWorkbook

 

SheetActivate

 

SheetBeforeDoubleClick

 

SheetBeforeRightClick

 

SheetCalculate

 

SheetChange

 

SheetDeactivate

 

SheetFollowHyperlink

 

SheetPivotTableUpdate

 

SheetSelectionChange

 

WindowActivate

 

WindowDeactivate

 

WindowResize

 

WorkbookActivate

 

WorkbookAddinInstall

 

WorkbookAddinUninstall

 

WorkbookAfterXmlExport

 

WorkbookAfterXmlImport

 

WorkbookBeforeClose

 

WorkbookBeforePrint

 

WorkbookBeforeSave

 

WorkbookBeforeXmlExport

 

WorkbookBeforeXmlImport

 

WorkbookDeactivate

 

WorkbookNewSheet

 

WorkbookOpen

 

WorkbookPivotTableCloseConnection ...

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