Command line utility for inserting data into Excel spreadsheet

[Satish S. Joshi]

Hello,

I need a command line utility that can insert data into an Excel spreadsheet
from command prompt. The syntax could be something like -

insertintoxls.exe "C:\Sales reports\salesrep.xls" "129290" "Sheet1!C35"

where
- insertintoxls.exe is the utility itself.
- "C:\Sales reports\salesrep.xls" is the complete path for the Excel
spreadsheet.
- 129290 is the value to be inserted.
- Sheet1!C35 is the cell reference.

In this example, the utility should open file salesrep.xls and insert value
129290 into cell C35 on sheet 1.

Any help in this reagard would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Joel]

Here is a simple way of performing your task.

1) Create a .BAT file with the following line

MyBat.Bat
excel.exe "c:\My Folder\book1.xls

This will open the workbook book1.xls

2) Create a workbook open event in the book1.xls
Which will read a text file ReadFile.Txt using the text lines read open
another workbook and insert the data

ReadFile.txt
C:\Sales reports\salesrep.xls
129290
Sheet1
C35

Private Sub Workbook_Open()

Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, _
ForAppending = 3

Const TextFile = "c:\temp\Readfile.Txt"

Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set fin = fs.OpenTextFile(TextFile, _
ForReading, TristateFalse)

BookName = fin.readline
WriteData = fin.readline
SheetName = fin.readline
WriteRange = fin.readline
fin.Close

Set WriteBk = Workbooks.Open(Filename:=BookName)
With WriteBk.Sheets(SheetName)
.Range(WriteRange) = WriteData
End With
WriteBk.Close savechanges:=True

Application.Quit
End Sub