VBA-Excel: Open and Print the Word Document

To open an existing Microsoft Word Document  and print it using Microsoft Excel, you need to follow the steps below:

• Create the object of Microsoft Word
• Create Doc object using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path
• Make the MS Word visible
• Print the word document
• Close the word document

Create the object of Microsoft Word

Set objWord = CreateObject(“Word.Application”)

Create Doc object using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path

Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

Make the MS Word Visible

objWord.Visible = True

Print the word document

objDoc.PrintOut

Close the word document

objWord.Quit

Complete Code:

Function FnPrint()

  Dim objWord

  Dim objDoc

  Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

  Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

  objWord.Visible = True

  objDoc.PrintOut

  objWord.Quit

End Function

Also Read:

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4. VBA-Excel: Writing Text to Word document
5. VBA-Excel: Create and Save the Word document