Solved: Get Excel data for Outlook UserForm

I have an Outlook UserForm that needs to populate a ComboBox from an Excel spreadsheet.

However, i am new at all this and cannot work out how to open a specified workbook / spreadsheet / cell and obtain the values to populate the Combobox.

Thanks all

(Windows XP / Office 2003)

It's actually not to hard. You will want to go to the tools menu of the VBE and set a reference to Microsoft Excel then you can pull that data as needed using the 4 basic excel objects (Application, Workbook, Worksheet, Range).

Here is some example syntax that should get you started. Make sure you set the reference before you try to use the code.

[VBA]Sub Example()
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Dim ws As Excel.Worksheet
Dim rng As Excel.Range
Set xlApp = New Excel.apl
Set wb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\Test.xls", Radonly:=True)
Set ws = wb.Worksheets("Sheet1")
Set rng = ws.Cells(1, 1)
MsgBox rng.Value
wb.Close SaveChanges:=False
xlApp.Quit
End Sub[/VBA]

Thank you very much
That has worked well.
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