Articles Tagged “Office”
10 articles tagged “Office”, newest first.
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What Is an OLE Object? — How Embedding and Linking Work and the Pitfalls in Business Documents
An OLE object is what embeds an Excel table in Word. Learn embedding vs. linking, compound files, In-Place Activation, broken links, bloat, and security.
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Automating Purchase-Order and Invoice PDFs That Arrive by Email With Power Automate — Designing Storage, Routing, Notification, and Extraction
A practical guide to automating the storage, routing, and notification of purchase-order and invoice PDFs that arrive by email with Power Automate, covering ...
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Migrating Excel VBA Macros to Power Automate — What to Replace with Office Scripts, and What to Leave as VBA
A guide to whether Excel VBA macros can migrate to Power Automate, covering what Office Scripts can replace, what only VBA can still do, connector limits, li...
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Why EXCEL.EXE Processes Remain After C# Excel COM Automation — Reference Release Patterns and the Replacement Decision
A practical look at why EXCEL.EXE processes remain running after automating Excel from C# via Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel, explained through COM reference...
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Automating Business Processes with Power Automate — Cloud Flows, Desktop Flows, and Robust Error Handling
A practical design guide to Power Automate: the difference between cloud flows and desktop flows, when to use PowerShell or VBA instead, licensing, error han...
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Why ActiveX Stops Working in Office 2024/Microsoft 365 and How to Diagnose It
When ActiveX stops working in Office 2024/Microsoft 365, work through the causes in order: default disablement, 32-bit/64-bit mismatch, COM registration, dep...
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Preparing for VBScript Deprecation: An Audit Guide for VBA and Internal Tools
Preparing for the phased deprecation of VBScript: inventorying VBA, Excel macros, and internal tools, static detection, execution logging, choosing replaceme...
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What Is VBA? - Its Constraints, Its Future, When to Replace It, and Realistic Migration Patterns
The basics and constraints of VBA, its future, when it should be replaced, and a realistic way to migrate Excel macros and in-house tools in stages.
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How to Build Excel Report Output - COM / Open XML / Templates
The design of Excel report output changes considerably depending on whether you automate Excel itself, generate xlsx files directly, or keep existing VBA. As...
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Using a .NET 8 DLL from VBA with Full Typing - COM Exposure and dscom TLB
Call .NET 8 code from VBA with early binding: expose a class library to COM, generate a TLB with dscom, and register the comhost DLL. Sample code on GitHub.