Hello Dave,
From your post, my understanding on this issue is: you want to recalculate
the cells in a spreadsheet by calling a command. If I'm off base, please
feel free to let me know.
There is no Excel startup command options
(
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291288) that allow recalculating the cells
automatically. Neither did I find any third party product or open source
project that do the job. However, I think we could do it ourselves
programmatically:
Option1: As we know, the method 'Calculate' in Excel runs all calculations
in a specified object.
(
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2kseswtc(VS.80).aspx), I think we
could write a macro in Workbook_Open event to recalculate the cells, then
automate to open and exit the workbook when we need to update the cells.
Option2: We write an automation client (for instance, a console
application) to automate to open the workbook, call 'Calculate' on the
cells in the program, then exit it. In this way, we just need to run this
console application when we need to update the cells and this application
can be applied to any workbook that needs to update the calculation.
Please let me know if you have any other concerns, or need anything else.
Sincerely,
Jialiang Ge (
[email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support
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