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Nonetheless, if you’d like to send keyboard shortcuts, it’s possible to do so with SendKeys. Save executes as “pure VBA”, without the awkward injection of an I/O device (keystrokes) designed for us humans. This method permits precise naming of a specific workbook, thereby ensuring it’s exactly the workbook you want to save. It’s far more robust to use “pure VBA” to save the workbook with a Workbook.Save. I’d strongly recommend against using SendKeys to do this, though. If you want to save a workbook after making modifications via some subroutine, it’s theoretically possible to send the Ctrl+s keyboard shortcut to save. Technically, you can use SendKeys to send keyboard shortcuts to MS Office programs.

FIREFOX NOW SENDS YOUR KEYSTROKES TO HOW TO

We’ll talk more about how to do that in a bit. If you want to send keystrokes to another program, you’ll need to activate it.

FIREFOX NOW SENDS YOUR KEYSTROKES TO CODE

If the workbook is your target, run your code from the Macros selection box in the GUI. It’s imperative to first activate whatever element you want SendKeys to impact. You’ll end up with something like this, which probably is not what you intended:ĭespite you trying to activate Cell A1, the VBE was still active at the time of running, so SendKeys placed the keystrokes at the cursor in the VBE instead of in your desired Cell.

To illustrate: open the VBE, input this code, and run the macro with F5. In fact, you can’t even run some bits of code from the VBA Editor, as the VBE will still be active! Thus, you cannot step through your code to verify its correctness. Moreover, the active element at exactly the time SendKeys executes receives the keystrokes. If the wrong window is active, you’ll be sending keystrokes to the wrong window. Ideally this is the place you want the keystrokes to impact, such as a cell in a worksheet, an open notepad, or a browser URL bar. SendKeys literally sends the indicated keystrokes to whatever element is active. Many tutorials start off with a warning on using SendKeys, and they have a good reason.

Switching to open windows with AppActivate.

VBA is really designed and optimized for MS Office applications, hence Visual Basic for (Microsoft) Applications, but SendKeys is useful when you want to deal with other programs. Admittedly, SendKeys is also somewhat clumsy and it’s not the most reliable, but it can get the job done in a pinch. VBA offers a way to interact with web requests and deal with HTTP responses (however clumsy it may be) through APIs and web scraping, too.īut sometimes you want to interact with non-MS Office programs that are not web content. Most VBA applications are designed to work within Excel and other Microsoft Office programs, like Powerpoint and Excel.