Microsoft KB Archive/141282

= Macro to Open All Linked Workbooks =

Article ID: 141282

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q141282



SUMMARY
In Microsoft Excel, you can write a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) to open all of the workbooks that are linked to an open workbook. This article provides a sample macro to accomplish this.



MORE INFORMATION
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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub OpenLinkedWorkbooks

Dim Links As Variant

' Obtain an array for the links to Excel workbooks ' in the active workbook.

Links = ActiveWorkbook.LinkSources(xlExcelLinks)

' If the Links array is not empty then open each ' linked workbook. If the array is empty, then ' display an error message.

If Not IsEmpty(Links) Then For i = 1 To UBound(Links) Workbooks.Open Links(i) Next i     Else MsgBox "This workbook does not contain any links " & _ "to other workbooks" End If

End Sub

