VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel

16Automating Word

IN THIS CHAPTER

Early Binding

Late Binding

Creating and Referencing Objects

Word's Objects

Case Study: Creating a Filtered Report in Word

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Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access all use the same VBA language; the only difference between them is their object models (for example, Excel has a Workbooks object, 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 object library, Excel must establish a link to it. There are two ways of doing this: early binding or late binding. With early binding, the reference to the application object is created when the program is compiled; with late binding, it ...