What's the best way to save and close all open Excel instances

Thanks a lot capricorn1 for your quick response. I'm not an Access or Excel expert, so please bear with me.

The following parameter is not optional -->> xlApp As Excel.Application <<--- What I'm supposed to pass here?

Here is what I'm doing:

Dim xlWorkbook As Excel.Workbook

Set xlWorkbook = Excel.Workbooks.Open("Path to my Excel file")
...
... ' changes to the spreadsheet here
...
xlWorkbook.Save
xlWorkbook.Close
Set xlWorkbook = Nothing


If I have one or more instances of Excel open the 'changes to the spreadsheet' don't get saved, instead I get a read-write message.

If I close all running Excel instances and try again, the all the 'changes to the spreadsheet' get saved.

So, I'll I want to do is close all running instances --without knowing their names-- before making 'changes to the spreadsheet'


Thanks a bunch!





 

Or with an actual value instead of Cap's arguement... :-)

    objBk.Close SaveChanges:=True

Thanks LPurvis for the code. However, it doesn't seem to work,

If I open a new workbook, it's named Book1 by Excel. After running your code Book1 is still open...

Any thoughts?

Is the workbook saved at all - or a totally blank one?

In my case above, it's totally blank. But, I may have others open at the same time that may required to be saved before implicitly closing it .

try

    Dim xlObj As Excel.Application
    Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
   
      xlObj.Workbooks.Open("Path to my Excel file")






    Excel_CloseWorkBook xlObj, True
    Set xlObj = Nothing

Indeed.  So if there's a workbook open - that's never been saved - and the Excel instance is to be closed - where (and how) do you want that workbook to be saved/treated.

Let's say that I just want to kill all Excel instances (forget about saving changes). so, if I go to Task-Manager I won't see an instance running under Applications or a process running under Processes.

Can the above be done using VBA?

the codes posted above will do it for you

So does the function not work if changed to abandon the changes?

Function CloseAllExcel()
On Error Resume Next

    Dim objEx As Object
    Dim objBk as Object
    Dim dblErr As Double

    Do Until dblErr <> 0
        Set objEx = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
        dblErr = err
        For Each objBk In objEx.Workbooks
            objBk.Close SaveChanges:=False
        Next
        objEx.Application.Quit
        DoEvents
        Set objEx = Nothing
    Loop
   
End Function

I find shutdown reboot works. Im surprised LPurvis hasnt mentioned that yet !

I would never do so... that's old school Rocki.
Modern thinking uses the BFH method.

(H stands for "Hammer"... I'll let you work the rest out :-)

@capricorn1

  Your code is doing the same thing: If I have an Excel instance open, other than the one I'm manipulating from
                                                     within Access, it opens the Excel file and tells me that it's
                                                     available for editing. When I click read-write, Access doesn't output all the data.
                                                     Then, if I close Excel its process doesn't get killed and I have to manually kill it
                                                     using Task Manager.

@LPurvis

   Your code only kills one instance if the database is open after Excel. Otherwise it does nothing...


¿...?

ha! LOL!

Hmm it should kill any running instance - but is only killing those (potentially several) opened after the mdb...
(Which I admit is odd and unexpected!)