In Microsoft Excel, you can write a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications
macro (
Sub procedure) to open all of the workbooks that are linked to an open workbook. This article provides a sample macro to accomplish this.
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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub OpenLinkedWorkbooks()
Dim Links As Variant
' Obtain an array for the links to Excel workbooks
' in the active workbook.
Links = ActiveWorkbook.LinkSources(xlExcelLinks)
' If the Links array is not empty then open each
' linked workbook. If the array is empty, then
' display an error message.
If Not IsEmpty(Links) Then
For i = 1 To UBound(Links)
Workbooks.Open Links(i)
Next i
Else
MsgBox "This workbook does not contain any links " & _
"to other workbooks"
End If
End Sub
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