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Working with Workbooks

The Workbook and Workbooks class contains the methods and properties you use to perform tasks with workbooks.

Task

Procedure

Create a new workbook.

How to: Create New Workbooks

Open a specified workbook.

How to: Open Workbooks

Close a specified workbook and save changes.

How to: Close Workbooks

Save workbooks in Excel formats or XML format.

How to: Save Workbooks

Bring the focus to the current workbook or a different workbook.

How to: Protect Workbooks

Get a collection of recently used workbook files.

How to: List Recently Used Workbook Files

Open text files as workbooks.

How to: Open Text Files as Workbooks

For more information about Excel tasks and the Excel object model, see Excel Object Model Overview.

In some cases, the ways that you perform these tasks in application-level add-ins is different from the ways that you perform them in document-level customizations.

See Also

Concepts

Automating Excel by Using Extended Objects

Working with Worksheets

Working with Ranges

Using Windows Forms Controls on Excel Worksheets