Run vbs in excel

To run the code:

  1. On the Excel Ribbon, click the View tab.
  2. At the far right, click Macros.
  3. Select a macro in the list, and click the Run button.

Contents

  • 1 Can you code in Excel?
  • 2 How do I use VBA code in Excel?
  • 3 How do you enter code in Excel?
  • 4 How do I create a code in Excel?
  • 5 How do I automatically run VBA code in Excel?
  • 6 How do I run a Vbscript in Excel?
  • 7 How do I run a code in Visual Basic?
  • 8 Where is the code module in Excel?
  • 9 What is macro code in Excel?
  • 10 How do you use a product code?
  • 11 How do I run VBA code in Excel without opening it?
  • 12 Why is my macro not running automatically?
  • 13 How do I run a VBS file?
  • 14 Is VBScript the same as VBA?
  • 15 How do you run a VBA code?
  • 16 How do I run code?
  • 17 How do you run code in code or terminal?
  • 18 How do I code an Excel macro?
  • 19 Is VBA a code?

Can you code in Excel?

Excel has a built-in tool for writing macros called the Visual Basic Editor—or VBA Editor for short. To open that, open a spreadsheet and use the shortcut Alt + F11 (for Mac: Fn + Shift + F11 ). The new window that pops up is called the VBA Editor.You’ll then see the blank space to write your code on the right.

How do I use VBA code in Excel?

Press Alt+F11 to activate the VBE. Click the new workbook’s name in the Project window. Choose Insert → Module to insert a VBA module into the project. Position the cursor anywhere within the text you typed and press F5 to execute the procedure.

How do you enter code in Excel?

Copy Excel VBA Code to a Regular Module

  1. Copy the sample code that you want to use.
  2. Open the workbook in which you want to add the code.
  3. Hold the Alt key, and press the F11 key, to open the Visual Basic Editor.
  4. Choose Insert | Module.
  5. Where the cursor is flashing, choose Edit | Paste.

How do I create a code in Excel?

Product Codes

  1. Select the range A2:A7.
  2. On the Data tab, in the Data Tools group, click Data Validation.
  3. In the Allow list, click Custom.
  4. In the Formula box, enter the formula shown below and click OK.
  5. To check this, select cell A3 and click Data Validation.
  6. Enter an incorrect product code.

How do I automatically run VBA code in Excel?

Instructions:

  1. Open an excel workbook.
  2. Press Alt+F11 to open VBA Editor.
  3. Insert a New Module from Insert Menu.
  4. Copy the above code and Paste in the code window.
  5. Save the file as macro enabled workbook.
  6. Open the workbook to test it, it will Run a Macro Automatically. You should see a message box as shown above.

How do I run a Vbscript in Excel?

To run VBA in the “Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications” window, you can just press “F5” key button or click the “Run” icon in the toolbar.

How do I run a code in Visual Basic?

Run the program

  1. Press the F5 key.
  2. On the VB menu bar, Run > Start.
  3. On the VB toolbar, click the VB Run icon (the arrow)

Where is the code module in Excel?

Code Modules – The code modules are the most common place we store macros. The modules are located in the Modules folder within the workbook. Sheet Modules – Each sheet in the workbook has a sheet object in the Microsoft Excel Objects folder.

What is macro code in Excel?

Visual Basic for Applications
In Excel, macro code is a programming code which is written in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) language. The idea behind using a macro code is to automate an action which you perform manually in Excel, otherwise.

How do you use a product code?

Top 10 Tips for Creating Great Product Codes

  1. Product codes must not start with 0!
  2. Keep it short and sweet, but not too short!
  3. Try not to use your supplier’s product code as your product code.
  4. We recommend using uppercase letters, numbers and dashes (-) only in your product code.

How do I run VBA code in Excel without opening it?

You can’t run a Excel VBA Macro without opening the File that contains the macro. If you want you can launch the excel application in hidden mode and then run the macro after opening the file in hidden mode from a VBS file. I think a better approach would be to try VB.Net.

Why is my macro not running automatically?

Macros require special permissions in order to run in Excel, since they are often the source of some dangerous computer virus attacks. Excel will not run macros by default, so you’ll have to explicitly change some settings in order for any macro to run automatically on start up.

How do I run a VBS file?

You can also run VBS Scripts using WScript.exe by clicking Start followed by Run. Type the file path into the Open field then click OK to open and run the script. All of these methods are essentially using a similar approach to access and run the script.

Is VBScript the same as VBA?

VBScript is a subset of the Visual Basic for Applications language. VBScript is an untyped language.Unlike Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications, in which the developer can define the data type of a variable in advance, all variables in VBScript are variants.

How do you run a VBA code?

Single Step

  1. Empty the range A1:E2.
  2. Press F8 four times.
  3. Press F8 two more times.
  4. Single step through the rest of the code to see how Excel VBA enters the other numbers.
  5. Click on the green arrow to execute the macro until the breakpoint.
  6. Only part of the macro (for i = 1) has been executed.

To run code:

  1. use shortcut Ctrl+Alt+N.
  2. or press F1 and then select/type Run Code ,
  3. or right click the Text Editor and then click Run Code in editor context menu.
  4. or click Run Code button in editor title menu.
  5. or click Run Code button in context menu of file explorer.

How do you run code in code or terminal?

You can also run VS Code from the terminal by typing ‘code’ after adding it to the path:

  1. Launch VS Code.
  2. Open the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P) and type ‘shell command’ to find the Shell Command: Install ‘code’ command in PATH command.

How do I code an Excel macro?

How?

  1. In the Code group on the Developer tab, click Record Macro.
  2. Optionally, enter a name for the macro in the Macro name box, enter a shortcut key in the Shortcut key box, and a description in the Description box, and then click OK to start recording.

Is VBA a code?

VBA is a coding language used by millions of people across the world to automate tasks in Microsoft Office products. It’s a language that has been around for decades and is one of the easiest coding languages to learn if you don’t have a computer science background.

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  • Question

  • Hi

    I am new in programming, I’d like to ask a basic question.

    How to run *.vbs or *.bat in Excel VBS?

    I tried the code but it didn’t work

    Sub Test()

    Set ws = WScript.CreateObject(«WScript.Shell»)
    ws.Run («Notepad»)

    End Sub

    thanks~

Answers

  • Hey,

    Here you go…

    Sub Test()
        Set ws = CreateObject(«WScript.Shell»)
            ws.Run («Notepad»)
    End Sub

    Best Regards

    Cathrine

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  • Hey,

    Here you go…

    Sub Test()
        Set ws = CreateObject(«WScript.Shell»)
            ws.Run («Notepad»)
    End Sub

    Best Regards

    Cathrine

  • Hi Cathrine

    It works, thank you very much.

    My further question is

    How to set batch file background work

    Sub Test()
        Set ws = CreateObject(«WScript.Shell»)
            ws.Run («batch.bat»)
    End Sub

    BR,

    CCplus

  • Hey,

    You must use the full path to the file…

    Sub Test()
        Set ws = CreateObject(«WScript.Shell»)
            ws.Run («C:batch.bat»)
    End Sub

    Cath

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April 29, 2019/



Chris Newman

Automatically Run Excel Macros Every Day

I’m currently working on a consulting project where a VBA macro within an Excel file needs to run every morning before folks get into the office. As I work through getting this setup, I figured I would document my solution for everyone.

This article will go through how to utilize the Windows Task Scheduler application (don’t worry, this comes installed with most Windows PCs) to automatically open an Excel file, run it’s VBA code, save the file, and finally close the Excel file. With this solution, you will be able to customize the frequency and exact time(s) this automation will need to be executed. The ONLY CATCH to this solution, is that the PC will need to be on during the scheduled time.

Sorry Mac folks, this is only a PC solution. However, if you know your way around a Mac, you may be able to figure out how to implement a similar solution on the Mac OS.

What You Will Need

To fulfill this solution, we will be utilizing a few programs outside of Excel. You should already have all of these programs pre-installed on your PC.

  • Windows Task Scheduler

  • Notepad

  • CScript (Located: C:WindowsSystem32cscript.exe)

To launch Notepad and Windows Task Scheduler, simply type in their respective names into the search bar on your Taskbar and open the applications.

Search For Applications

Creating the VBS File

We will be utilizing a Visual Basic Script file (.vbs) to list out a set of automation instructions. If you are familiar with VBA, this is essentially the same thing with the “Sub()” and “End Sub” statements and it will need to be written inside of Notepad.

Launch the Notepad application and paste the following code on the left into the text editor (the colors won’t display in Notepad).

‘Input Excel File’s Full Path
  ExcelFilePath = «C:UserschrisDocumentsMy File.xlsm»

‘Input Module/Macro name within the Excel File
  MacroPath = «Module1.MyMacroName»

‘Create an instance of Excel
  Set ExcelApp = CreateObject(«Excel.Application»)

‘Do you want this Excel instance to be visible?
  ExcelApp.Visible = True  ‘or «False»

‘Prevent any App Launch Alerts (ie Update External Links)
  ExcelApp.DisplayAlerts = False

‘Open Excel File
  Set wb = ExcelApp.Workbooks.Open(ExcelFilePath)

‘Execute Macro Code
  ExcelApp.Run MacroPath

‘Save Excel File (if applicable)
  wb.Save

‘Reset Display Alerts Before Closing
  ExcelApp.DisplayAlerts = True

‘Close Excel File
  wb.Close

‘End instance of Excel
  ExcelApp.Quit

‘Leaves an onscreen message!
  MsgBox «Your Automated Task successfully ran at » & TimeValue(Now), vbInformation

After you have pasted in the code, you will need to modify it to suite your needs.

  1. You will need to change the value of ExcelFilePath variable to point to the exact file path of the Excel file you would like to open. Make sure to include your Excel’s file name and extension at the end of the path.

  2. You will need to change the value of MacroPath variable to direct the automation to the precise macro you would like to run. Make sure you reference the Module name first and then the macro’s name.

  3. You can decide whether or not you would like the Excel application to visible show on the computer screen while all this automation is happening. Typically, I will use the True value while testing (just for a sanity check) and when everything is working smoothly, switch it to False.

  4. If you are making modifications to the Excel file itself, you may want to include a Save command within this script.

  5. Finally, you can choose whether or not you would like a message box to show, allowing the user to be notified if the automation ran successfully. Again this might be useful for testing or building up trust with your users that the job is actually running.

After you have made all your modifications to your Visual Basic script, Save the text as a .txt file via Notepad. For this example, I called the .txt file “Macro Launcher”.

Converting .txt to .vbs

Now we will finish up by converting our newly created text file into a Visual Basic Script file (or .vbs file). This is extremely easy to do!

  1. Navigate to where the text file is located using Windows Explorer

  2. Edit the name of the file by using keyboard shortcut F2

  3. Change the “.txt” to “.vbs” and hit your Enter key

  4. You will be prompted to confirm the changing of the file type. Click Yes

After following those steps, you should see your brand new .vbs file within Windows Explorer

Change Txt To Vbs File

Creating Your Windows Automation Rule

Finally, we will create an automation rule (or task) using a native Windows application called Windows Task Scheduler. To find this hidden gem, just type “Windows Task Scheduler” in the search bar of your Taskbar and launch it.

You should see a Task Scheduler dialog appear that looks something similar to the image below. If you do not see the Actions pane to the right, click the last icon in the application’s toolbar.

To create a new task, simply click Create Task.

I will walk through each tab of the Create Task wizard, so you can get a good idea of all the settings you will most likely want to modify.

Create Task — General Tab

In the General Tab, you will be able to provide a name and a description (optional) for your automation task. Make sure to make your name descriptive so it will be easy to find in the long list of tasks that other applications on your PC have already created.

You will also be able to determine you would like the task to run if you are logged in/out of your PC. I assume most of you will want to enable the task to run while your computer is logged off, especially if your task is running on off hours.

Create Task — Triggers Tab

In the Triggers Tab, you will be able to create in-depth scheduling rules for your automation. In the below example, I am creating a Trigger to execute the Task every day at 6:30am.

There are also options in the Advanced Settings section to repeat the task after the initial trigger. For example, you may what to refresh a stock portfolio model every 10 minutes after the stock market opens. The Advanced Settings section gives you the freedom to repeat the task every X number of minutes after the initial trigger has executed.

You do have the freedom to create multiple trigger rules if necessary.

Create Task — Actions Tab

The Actions Tab is where you will map out which program you would like to launch. In our example, we are going to want to run the .vbs file we created that will open and run our Excel macro. We will utilize a program called CScript to execute our .vbs file. You should have this program already installed if you have a Windows OS. Below is the path to the application for your reference:

  • Program/Script: «C:WindowsSystem32cscript.exe»

Next, we will want to reference the file to open via CScript. Paste in the full file path of the .vbs file we created earlier. Mine looks something like this:

  • Add Arguments: «C:UserschrisDocumentsMacro Launcher.vbs»

PLEASE NOTE: Both of these inputs MUST be surrounded by double quotation marks or else your task will not function!

Create Task — Conditions Tab

With the options in the Conditions Tab, you can further customize the determining factors for when your task should run. The only one of importance to me is the option highlighted below, which will allow your task to run even if your PC goes to sleep.

Create Task — Settings Tab

Finally, the Settings tab provides a few additional options to customize your task. I have highlighted one important option below if you are incorporating a “completion notification” message box into your Visual Basic script (FYI we are using a message box in the the example).

It is important to understand that if a message box appears on the screen, by default your task cannot repeat itself until the message box is closed by the user. To get around this, you can tell the task to kill itself if and rerun if no one ended up closing the message box during the time between triggers.

Modifying Your Task In The Future

If you ever need to modify or delete you task in the future, you will need to select it from the list of tasks create on your PC (see #1). After your select your desired task, you should see a plethora of options available to you with the Actions Pane. To modify your task, simple select the Properties option and you will be taken back through the Create Task wizard.

You Now Have An Automation!

There you have it. With the utilization of a couple programs, you now have a Windows task setup to execute your macro(s) automatically. This will save you time and hassle going forward…and needless to say make you look extremely smart to all your co-works! I hope this article helped you get the solution you were looking for.

Let me know what you were able to automate in the comments section below!

About The Author

Hey there! I’m Chris and I run TheSpreadsheetGuru website in my spare time. By day, I’m actually a finance professional who relies on Microsoft Excel quite heavily in the corporate world. I love taking the things I learn in the “real world” and sharing them with everyone here on this site so that you too can become a spreadsheet guru at your company.

Through my years in the corporate world, I’ve been able to pick up on opportunities to make working with Excel better and have built a variety of Excel add-ins, from inserting tickmark symbols to automating copy/pasting from Excel to PowerPoint. If you’d like to keep up to date with the latest Excel news and directly get emailed the most meaningful Excel tips I’ve learned over the years, you can sign up for my free newsletters. I hope I was able to provide you with some value today and I hope to see you back here soon!

— Chris
Founder, TheSpreadsheetGuru.com

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  • #2

joe.afusco,

If you are asking to run a macro from another macro, then:

Please TEST this FIRST in a COPY of your workbook (always make a backup copy before trying new code, you never know what you might lose).

1. Copy the below code, by highlighting the code and pressing the keys CTRL + C
2. Open your workbook
3. Press the keys ALT + F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor
4. Press the keys ALT + I to activate the Insert menu
5. Press M to insert a Standard Module
6. Where the cursor is flashing, paste the code by pressing the keys CTRL + V
7. Press the keys ALT + Q to exit the Editor, and return to Excel
8. To run the macro from Excel, open the workbook, and press ALT + F8 to display the Run Macro Dialog. Double Click the macro’s name to Run it.

Code:

Option Explicit
Sub Execute_VBScript_from_VBA()
' hiker95, 03/02/2012
' http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=618285
Call TestA
Call TestB
End Sub


Sub TestA()
MsgBox "Running/executing macro 'TestA' !"
End Sub


Sub TestB()
MsgBox "Running/executing macro 'TestB' !"
End Sub

Then run the Execute_VBScript_from_VBA macro:

  • #3

If you literally mean running a VBS script then the following worked for me:

Code:

'in Excel module
Sub Test()
Shell "Explorer.exe ""C:Some FolderMyVBSFile.vbs""",1
End Sub

  • #4

Yes a vbs script is what I meant. Thanks! Secondary question that might rule out doing this through a script… I assume it is possible, but do the same fso methods in vbs work in vba? Renaming, deleting, moving files, etc.

  • #5

Why explorer rather than wscript or cscript? If the reason is using the default association, more robust to use

Shell Environ(«COMSPEC») & » /c start «»»» «»script path here»»», 1

  • #6

You can access most Windows Scripting Host and VBScript objects from VBA. Add references to Microsoft Scripting Runtime and Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5 to the VB project. There are many examples of accessing RegExp, Dinctionary and FileSystemObject objects on the web.

  • #7

Why explorer rather than wscript or cscript? If the reason is using the default association, more robust to use

Shell Environ(«COMSPEC») & » /c start «»»» «»script path here»»», 1

A mixture of lack of knowledge as regards the alternatives and also laziness since explorer worked!
Your post has gone some way to resolving the first issue but I’m probably stuck with the second :)

  • #8

So, this is going to sound pretty stupid. I’ve stored my script directory / file name in a string. How can I execute it from there? Can’t seem to get it to work with the following suggestion:

Shell Environ(«COMSPEC») & » /c start «»»» «»script path here»»», 1

  • #9

Nevermind. Trial and error figured it out.

Thanks for all the help!

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  1. 11-15-2005, 02:30 PM


    #1

    Run .vbs from a Excel macro?

    Hi guys!

    I need to run a .vbs scrpit from inside a excell macro. (the script opens
    phostoshop, does several actions, makes some files… and closes..)

    How can i do this??

    Thnks a lot!!
    SpeeD

  2. 11-15-2005, 02:40 PM


    #2

    Re: Run .vbs from a Excel macro?

    Use the shell command. See excel vba help for details.

    —
    Regards,
    Tom Ogilvy

    «SpeeD» <SpeeD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:F2C155E9-CF13-43F6-AE43-688CB5186270@microsoft.com…


    > Hi guys!
    >
    > I need to run a .vbs scrpit from inside a excell macro. (the script opens
    > phostoshop, does several actions, makes some files… and closes..)
    >
    > How can i do this??
    >
    > Thnks a lot!!
    > SpeeD

  3. 11-15-2005, 02:50 PM


    #3

    Re: Run .vbs from a Excel macro?

    Thanks Tom!

    I´ll do that!

    SpeeD72

    «Tom Ogilvy» wrote:


    > Use the shell command. See excel vba help for details.
    >
    > —
    > Regards,
    > Tom Ogilvy
    >
    >
    >
    > «SpeeD» <SpeeD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    > news:F2C155E9-CF13-43F6-AE43-688CB5186270@microsoft.com…
    > > Hi guys!
    > >
    > > I need to run a .vbs scrpit from inside a excell macro. (the script opens
    > > phostoshop, does several actions, makes some files… and closes..)
    > >
    > > How can i do this??
    > >
    > > Thnks a lot!!
    > > SpeeD
    >
    >
    >

  4. 11-15-2005, 03:10 PM


    #4

    Re: Run .vbs from a Excel macro?

    hi again!

    The command works fine with an EXE, but give an «invalid preocedure» with my
    test.vbs file.
    Is there a way to go round this problem?

    Thanks
    SpeeD72

    «Tom Ogilvy» wrote:


    > Use the shell command. See excel vba help for details.
    >
    > —
    > Regards,
    > Tom Ogilvy
    >
    >
    >
    > «SpeeD» <SpeeD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    > news:F2C155E9-CF13-43F6-AE43-688CB5186270@microsoft.com…
    > > Hi guys!
    > >
    > > I need to run a .vbs scrpit from inside a excell macro. (the script opens
    > > phostoshop, does several actions, makes some files… and closes..)
    > >
    > > How can i do this??
    > >
    > > Thnks a lot!!
    > > SpeeD
    >
    >
    >

  5. 11-15-2005, 04:10 PM


    #5

    Re: Run .vbs from a Excel macro?

    Post your code.

    —
    Cordially,
    Chip Pearson
    Microsoft MVP — Excel
    Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
    www.cpearson.com

    «SpeeD» <SpeeD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:6F0FEEFD-EAF4-4547-8ACB-7D5B311F5A72@microsoft.com…


    > hi again!
    >
    > The command works fine with an EXE, but give an «invalid
    > preocedure» with my
    > test.vbs file.
    > Is there a way to go round this problem?
    >
    > Thanks
    > SpeeD72
    >
    >
    > «Tom Ogilvy» wrote:
    >
    >> Use the shell command. See excel vba help for details.
    >>
    >> —
    >> Regards,
    >> Tom Ogilvy
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> «SpeeD» <SpeeD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    >> news:F2C155E9-CF13-43F6-AE43-688CB5186270@microsoft.com…
    >> > Hi guys!
    >> >
    >> > I need to run a .vbs scrpit from inside a excell macro. (the
    >> > script opens
    >> > phostoshop, does several actions, makes some files… and
    >> > closes..)
    >> >
    >> > How can i do this??
    >> >
    >> > Thnks a lot!!
    >> > SpeeD
    >>
    >>
    >>

  6. 11-15-2005, 04:30 PM


    #6

    Re: Run .vbs from a Excel macro?

    The executable for running scripts is either Wscript.exe or Cscript.exe,
    both located in the system32 folder. Something like:

    Sub RunAscript()
    Dim RetVal
    RetVal = Shell(«C:WindowsSystem32WScript.exe C:TestmyScript.vbs», 0)
    End Sub

    would run the script «C:TestmyScript.vbs» using Shell.

    I think I’d create an instance of the Scripting Runtime in Excel and just
    incorporate the code from the script inside the VBA routine rather than
    launch a separate script. If you use Shell, you can’t be sure that the
    script will have finished what it’s supposed to do before the rest of your
    code runs.

    Steve

    «SpeeD» <SpeeD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:6F0FEEFD-EAF4-4547-8ACB-7D5B311F5A72@microsoft.com…


    > hi again!
    >
    > The command works fine with an EXE, but give an «invalid preocedure» with
    > my
    > test.vbs file.
    > Is there a way to go round this problem?
    >
    > Thanks
    > SpeeD72
    >
    >
    > «Tom Ogilvy» wrote:
    >
    >> Use the shell command. See excel vba help for details.
    >>
    >> —
    >> Regards,
    >> Tom Ogilvy
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> «SpeeD» <SpeeD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    >> news:F2C155E9-CF13-43F6-AE43-688CB5186270@microsoft.com…
    >> > Hi guys!
    >> >
    >> > I need to run a .vbs scrpit from inside a excell macro. (the script
    >> > opens
    >> > phostoshop, does several actions, makes some files… and closes..)
    >> >
    >> > How can i do this??
    >> >
    >> > Thnks a lot!!
    >> > SpeeD
    >>
    >>
    >>

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