Question

I have an Excel file that has a bunch of VBA and macro code in it. When I open the file in Excel I can choose not to ‘enable’ them – so the values in the fields all stay as they were during the last save. I need to manipulate the values as they were last saved – so I don’t want the macros (which look at the current date and update values accordingly) to run.

When I open it via our dot net code:

Dim oxlRep As Excel.Application Dim oWBRep As Excel.Workbook Dim oSheetRep As Excel.Worksheet Dim oRngRep As Excel.Range oxlRep.Open(path) 

the vb code runs – throwing off the values. I’ve been looking for a way to open it without macros, or in ‘secure’ mode where the macros aren’t run. If I simply double click the file and don’t choose to enable macros the values are all there as I want them.

Usually we run this code within the month that the files are created, so we haven’t seen this problem in the 3 or 4 years that it has been working. Now I need to go back to some of the old files and run some archival code…

Anyone have a suggestion?

Answer 1

Application.AutomationSecurity = msoAutomationSecurity.msoAutomationSecurityForceDisable 

Try opening the workbook after this statement. I think, this will disable macros at Application Level (not at workbook level)

Hope that helps.