MSH Library – MS Office Automation

The MSH Library – MS Office Automation library contains code to perform common tasks needed when automating interaction among other components of the Microsoft Office suite, specifically MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Outlook. This code library is the result of many years of programming database applications in MS Access VBA.

This code library provides simple procedure calls for tasks such as opening and saving files to reduce the complexity of these tasks for the programmer. This library has code to control MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Outlook:

MS Excel – create new instances of Excel, open Workbooks, open & create CSV files, save Worksheets and charts as PDF files, and more.
MS Word – create new instances of Word, open & create documents, save documents, insert text into documents, create envelopes, create mail-merge files, execute a Word mail-merge, and more.
MS Outlook – create new instances of Outlook, create new e-mails and save, display, or send them.

Other features of the MSH Library – MS Office Automation v2014-10:

Contains full documentation in PDF format
Developed in MS Access VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)
For MS Access 2007 (Service Pack 3), MS Access 2010, and later
Modules, forms, and other database objects are unlocked and available for inspection and modification.

This is not public domain software. It is licensed to you at no cost.

MSH Library – MS Office Automation v2014-10 and its documentation are released to you under one or more of the GNU Public Licenses. Each pertinent GNU license is included in full as attachments in the MSH Library – MS Office Automation v2014-10.accdb. You may read the pertinent licenses in the MSH Library – MS Office Automation documentation before downloading the source code. You agree to be bound by these license agreements at such time as you utilize the VBA source code, and/or distribute this or new versions of the code and/or its documentation.

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Click the download link. Your browser will display a file download dialog box.
Save MSH Library – MS Office Automation v2014-10.zip to any location on your hard drive.
When the download is complete, follow these steps:
browse to where you saved MSH Library – MS Office Automation v2014-10.zip, and right-click it.
Choose “Extract All” from the right-click menu.
Follow the prompts in the Extraction Wizard to extract the MSH Library – MS Office Automation v2014-10.accdb file to a location of your choice.
Double-click the extracted MSH Library – MS Office Automation v2014-10.accdb file.
Windows will launch MS Access and open the database application.
Unless you have extracted the .accdb file to a “trusted” location (as defined in your MS Access local configuration), you will see this security warning message under the MS Access ribbon: .
Click the Options button to display the Microsoft Office Security Options dialog (shown below).
In the Security Options dialog, Select the “Enable This Content” option and click OK. MS Access will now allow the VBA code in the demonstration database to execute.