VBA-Excel: Open an Existing Word Document

To open an existing Microsoft Word Document using Microsoft Excel, you need to follow the steps below:

• Create the object of Microsoft Word
• Using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path
• Make the MS Word visible

Create the object of Microsoft Word

Set objWord = CreateObject(“Word.Application”)

Using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path

Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

Make the MS Word Visible

objWord.Visible = True

Complete Code:

Function FnOpeneWordDoc()

   Dim objWord

   Dim objDoc

   Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

   Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

   objWord.Visible = True

End Function

Also Read:

1. VBA-Excel: Add/Insert a Image/Picture in Word Document
2. VBA-Excel: Create worksheets with Names in Specific Format/Pattern.
3. Excel-VBA : Change Passwords for all the WorkSheets in one shot
4. Excel-VBA : Open a MS Word Document using Excel File using Explorer Window.
5. VBA-Excel: Create and Save the Word document