XL: Macro to Open All Linked Workbooks

ID: Q141282

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel for Windows NT, version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

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

REFERENCES

For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications

Keywords          : kbprg kbdta kbdtacode PgmHowto KbVBA 
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0,7.0,97; MACINTOSH:5.0,98
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999