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James_Price
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Jul 08, 2025
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Excel automation script: Can it open or get access to other Excel workbooks

Hi Team,

Excel automation script: Can it open or get access to other Excel workbooks.  And if not, do you think this might change in the near future.

Many thanks 

James 

  • No, it cannot. But you can use Power Automate combined with Office Script to do things with more than one file.

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  • JKPieterse's avatar
    JKPieterse
    Silver Contributor

    No, it cannot. But you can use Power Automate combined with Office Script to do things with more than one file.

    • Jamesp43510's avatar
      Jamesp43510
      Copper Contributor

      Thanks for the update JK.  Do you see this changing in the future as it will be tedious to do this for larger VBA conversions who are not keen on Python.  Cheers

      • JKPieterse's avatar
        JKPieterse
        Silver Contributor

        Hi James,

        I don't expect this to change, no. 

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