VBA and Macros: Microsoft® Excel® 2010

18. Automating Word

IN THIS CHAPTER

Early Binding

Late Binding

Creating and Referencing Objects

Using Constant Values

Understanding Word’s Objects

Controlling Form Fields in Word

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 object library, Excel must establish a link to it by using either early binding or late binding. With early binding, the reference to the application object is created when the program is compiled. With late binding, the reference is created ...