Question

Fairly straightforward scenario, for which I can’t seem to find an answer anywhere:

• I am using a Microsoft WebBrowser
  ActiveX control (AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser) in a Windows Forms
  application.
• The WebBrowser control
  is used to display Excel workbooks in
  the application.
• I can obtain a
  reference to the internal document as
  a
  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook.
• What I cannot seem to find, despite
  hours of searching the Web, is any
  reliable guidance on how to determine
  the range of cells currently selected
  by the end-user.

Here’s the problem. Since the sheet is displayed in the browser, it doesn’t have the Excel toolbar displayed, and I’d like to provide at least some rudimentary functionality (cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, bold, italic, underscore, left, right, center, and so on) from my application’s main window. In order to do that, I need to be able to forward those commands onto the active sheet. Some of those commands require knowledge of the currently selected range if I want to properly execute them.

If anyone knows how to do this, I would be forever in your debt. (Well, maybe not forever, but you get the point.)

[NOTE: I use the old ActiveX control so that I can trap the NavigateComplete2 event to capture the reference to the internal document. The .NET WebBrowser control doesn’t expose this functionality the same way.]

Answer 1

If you can get the workbook reference, you should be able to do .Application.Selection to get the current selected Range.