Running Excel using VBA from another program

Question

I am using vba in a CAD program to export data, sort the data, and add data. The following macro is exactly what I want excel to do. However I believe I am limited to having the CAD program tell Excel what to do through VBA. This macro copyies a formula and pastes it to all the populated cells below it in the column.

MACRO CODE:

Range("B1").Select
Selection.Copy
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select
ActiveSheet.Paste

iLogic Version of Code:

oBook.WorkSheets(1).Name = "Order List"
oBook.WorkSheets(2).Name = "Cut List"
wSheet1 = oBook.WorkSheets("Order List")
wSheet2 = oBook.WorkSheets("Cut List")

wSheet2.Activate
wSheet2.Range("B1").Select
wSheet2.Selection.Copy
wSheet2.Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select
wSheet2.Selection.Paste

Unfortunately I seem to be missing something to translate between Inventor and Excel, but I don't know enough to even know if that's the issue. Any advice is very much appreciated as I am still very new to VBA.

Answer 1

Ok. I had some code that I had copied off of a forum but didn't understand the functions going on. I believe this is what you are referring to "Application"?

wSheet2.Columns("G:G").select()
oExcelApp.Selection.cut()
wSheet2.Columns("B:B").Select()
oExcelApp.Selection.Insert(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlDirection.xlToRight)

Although I don't understand what the "(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlDirection.xlToRight)" refers to. I understand the part about the direction and where it inserts just not whats before it.

Answer 2

I do agree with @DisGruntledDraftsman about not using Select and Activate. However, if you are just trying to get some working code that gets the job done, some simple tweaks can be done. Of course this isn't ideal but, it should work though.

row_Count = wSheet2.Range("B1048576").End(xlUp).Row
wSheet2.Activate
wSheet2.Range("B1").Select
Selection.AutoFill Destination:=wSheet2.Range("B1:B" & row_Count), Type:=xlFillDefault