How to Launch an Excel macro from command line (Without Worksheet_Open Event)?
Use the Windows PowerShell, it has excellent COM interop support.
I have the workbook c:\TestBeep.xlsm with a macro called "Test". This is my transcript:
PS C:\> $app = New-Object -comobject Excel.Application
PS C:\> $wb = $app.Workbooks.Open("c:\TestBeep.xlsm")
PS C:\> $wb.Name
TestBeep.xlsm
PS C:\> $app.Run("Test")
PS C:\> $app.Quit()
Optionally you can add in $app.Visible = $True
to make the window visible.
I finally created a VB Script and launched it from the command line:
Option Explicit
LaunchMacro
Sub LaunchMacro()
Dim xl
Dim xlBook
Dim sCurPath
sCurPath = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetAbsolutePathName(".")
Set xl = CreateObject("Excel.application")
Set xlBook = xl.Workbooks.Open(sCurPath & "\MyWorkBook.xlsm", 0, True)
xl.Application.Visible = True
xl.Application.run "MyWorkBook.xlsm!MyModule.MyMacro"
xl.DisplayAlerts = False
xlBook.saved = True
xl.activewindow.close
xl.Quit
Set xlBook = Nothing
Set xl = Nothing
End Sub