Workbooks Object Members

Excel Developer Reference

A collection of all the Workbook objects that are currently open in the Microsoft Excel application.

Methods

	Name	Description
	Add	Creates a new workbook. The new workbook becomes the active workbook.
	CanCheckOut	True if Microsoft Excel can check out a specified workbook from a server. Read/write Boolean.
	CheckOut	Returns a String representing a specified workbook from a server to a local computer for editing.
	Close	Closes the object.
	Open	Opens a workbook.
	OpenDatabase	Returns a Workbook object representing a database.
	OpenText	Loads and parses a text file as a new workbook with a single sheet that contains the parsed text-file data.
	OpenXML	Opens an XML data file. Returns a Workbook object.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Application	When used without an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the Microsoft Excel application. When used with an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object (you can use this property with an OLE Automation object to return the application of that object). Read-only.
	Count	Returns a Long value that represents the number of objects in the collection.
	Item	Returns a single object from a collection.
	Parent	Returns the parent object for the specified object. Read-only.