Switch Focus to Excel with Access VBA Automation

[BikeToWork]

Hi, I am trying to figure out some way to open an Excel workbook from Access vba and have the focus automatically shift to Excel. What happens is is that the Excel workbook shows up as a blinking Excel icon in the taskbar. I call the following code from Access to open the Excel workbook.

Function OpenExcel(strFileName As String)

Dim XL As Excel.Application
Dim WKB As New Excel.Workbook

Set XL = New Excel.Application
XL.Visible = True

Set WKB = XL.Workbooks.Open(strFileName)
WKB.Activate

'WKB.Close SaveChanges:=False


Set WKB = Nothing
Set XL = Nothing


End Function

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[zmbd]

Try inserting etween lines 6 and 7:
xl.UserControl = True

I have a similar code that dumps stuff out to excel using basically Line 6, myline, 7 and the focus is left on the worksheet... (I also have code to select range a1 too)

Let us know if this works.

(you might take a look a this too: 163. Application Automation starts with Outlook; however, has an excel example too.

[ADezii]

If you are really stuck, you can use the API to retrieve the Window's Handle in the Task Bar, then Maximize it.

[cjswimmer]

I know this is a really old thread but I found a solution and thought I should share. You can use

AppActivate XL.Windows(1).Caption

[NeoPa]

Nice. I'll go ahead and set that to Best Answer.

I'm sure the other suggestions also work but this is exactly what was requested.