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Workbooks Object Members

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Excel Developer Reference

A collection of all the Workbook objects that are currently open in the Microsoft Excel application.

Methods

  Name Description
Bb225771.methods(en-us,office.12).gif Add Creates a new workbook. The new workbook becomes the active workbook.
Bb225771.methods(en-us,office.12).gif CanCheckOut True if Microsoft Excel can check out a specified workbook from a server. Read/write Boolean.
Bb225771.methods(en-us,office.12).gif CheckOut Returns a String representing a specified workbook from a server to a local computer for editing.
Bb225771.methods(en-us,office.12).gif Close Closes the object.
Bb225771.methods(en-us,office.12).gif Open Opens a workbook.
Bb225771.methods(en-us,office.12).gif OpenDatabase Returns a Workbook object representing a database.
Bb225771.methods(en-us,office.12).gif OpenText Loads and parses a text file as a new workbook with a single sheet that contains the parsed text-file data.
Bb225771.methods(en-us,office.12).gif OpenXML Opens an XML data file. Returns a Workbook object.

Properties

  Name Description
Bb225771.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Application When used without an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the Microsoft Excel application. When used with an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object (you can use this property with an OLE Automation object to return the application of that object). Read-only.
Bb225771.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Count Returns a Long value that represents the number of objects in the collection.
Bb225771.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Item Returns a single object from a collection.
Bb225771.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Parent Returns the parent object for the specified object. Read-only.