Add Data to a Spreadsheet Cell
Demonstration script that adds the words “Test Value” to cell 1,1 in a new spreadsheet.
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- objExcel.Visible = True
- objExcel.Workbooks.Add
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Value = "Test value"
Add Formatted Data to a Spreadsheet
Demonstration script that adds the words “test value” to a new spreadsheet, then formats the cell containing the value.
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- objExcel.Visible = True
- objExcel.Workbooks.Add
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Value = "Test value"
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Font.Bold = TRUE
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Font.Size = 24
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Font.ColorIndex = 3
Create User Accounts Based on Information in a Spreadsheet
Demonstration script that creates new Active Directory user accounts based on information stored in an Excel spreadsheet.
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- Set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open _
- ("C:\Scripts\New_users.xls")
- intRow = 2
- Do Until objExcel.Cells(intRow,1).Value = ""
- Set objOU = GetObject("ou=Finance, dc=fabrikam, dc=com")
- Set objUser = objOU.Create _
- ("User", "cn=" & objExcel.Cells(intRow, 1).Value)
- objUser.sAMAccountName = objExcel.Cells(intRow, 2).Value
- objUser.GivenName = objExcel.Cells(intRow, 3).Value
- objUser.SN = objExcel.Cells(intRow, 4).Value
- objUser.AccountDisabled = FALSE
- objUser.SetInfo
- intRow = intRow + 1
- Loop
- objExcel.Quit
Format a Range of Cells
Demonstration script that adds data to four different cells in a spreadsheet, then uses the Range object to format multiple cells at the same time.
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- objExcel.Visible = True
- objExcel.Workbooks.Add
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Value = "Name"
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Font.Bold = TRUE
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Interior.ColorIndex = 30
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Font.ColorIndex = 2
- objExcel.Cells(2, 1).Value = "Test value 1"
- objExcel.Cells(3, 1).Value = "Test value 2"
- objExcel.Cells(4, 1).Value = "Tets value 3"
- objExcel.Cells(5, 1).Value = "Test value 4"
- Set objRange = objExcel.Range("A1","A5")
- objRange.Font.Size = 14
- Set objRange = objExcel.Range("A2","A5")
- objRange.Interior.ColorIndex = 36
- Set objRange = objExcel.ActiveCell.EntireColumn
- objRange.AutoFit()
List Active Directory Data in a Spreadsheet
Demonstration script that retrieves data from Active Directory and then displays that data in an Excel spreadsheet.
- Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- objExcel.Visible = True
- objExcel.Workbooks.Add
- objExcel.Cells(1, 1).Value = "Last name"
- objExcel.Cells(1, 2).Value = "First name"
- objExcel.Cells(1, 3).Value = "Department"
- objExcel.Cells(1, 4).Value = "Phone number"
- Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
- Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
- objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
- objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
- Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
- objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100
- objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
- objCommand.CommandText = _
- "SELECT givenName, SN, department, telephoneNumber FROM " _
- & "'LDAP://dc=fabrikam,dc=microsoft,dc=com' WHERE " _
- & "objectCategory='user'"
- Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
- objRecordSet.MoveFirst
- x = 2
- Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
- objExcel.Cells(x, 1).Value = _
- objRecordSet.Fields("SN").Value
- objExcel.Cells(x, 2).Value = _
- objRecordSet.Fields("givenName").Value
- objExcel.Cells(x, 3).Value = _
- objRecordSet.Fields("department").Value
- objExcel.Cells(x, 4).Value = _
- objRecordSet.Fields("telephoneNumber").Value
- x = x + 1
- objRecordSet.MoveNext
- Loop
- Set objRange = objExcel.Range("A1")
- objRange.Activate
- Set objRange = objExcel.ActiveCell.EntireColumn
- objRange.Autofit()
- Set objRange = objExcel.Range("B1")
- objRange.Activate
- Set objRange = objExcel.ActiveCell.EntireColumn
- objRange.Autofit()
- Set objRange = objExcel.Range("C1")
- objRange.Activate
- Set objRange = objExcel.ActiveCell.EntireColumn
- objRange.Autofit()
- Set objRange = objExcel.Range("D1")
- objRange.Activate
- Set objRange = objExcel.ActiveCell.EntireColumn
- objRange.Autofit()
- Set objRange = objExcel.Range("A1").SpecialCells(11)
- Set objRange2 = objExcel.Range("C1")
- Set objRange3 = objExcel.Range("A1")
List Excel Color Values
Demonstration script that displays the various colors — and their related color index — available when programmatically controlling Microsoft Excel.
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- objExcel.Visible = True
- objExcel.Workbooks.Add
- For i = 1 to 56
- objExcel.Cells(i, 1).Value = i
- objExcel.Cells(i, 1).Interior.ColorIndex = i
- Next
List Service Data in a Spreadsheet
Demonstration script that retrieves information about each service running on a computer, and then displays that data in an Excel spreadsheet.
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- objExcel.Visible = True
- objExcel.Workbooks.Add
- x = 1
- strComputer = "."
- Set objWMIService = GetObject _
- ("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
- Set colServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
- ("Select * From Win32_Service")
- For Each objService in colServices
- objExcel.Cells(x, 1) = objService.Name
- objExcel.Cells(x, 2) = objService.State
- x = x + 1
- Next
Open an Excel Spreadsheet
Demonstration script that opens an existing Excel spreadsheet named C:\Scripts\New_users.xls.
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- Set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open("C:\Scripts\New_users.xls")
Read an Excel Spreadsheet
Demonstration script that reads the values stored in a spreadsheet named C:\Scripts\New_users.xls.
- Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
- Set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open _
- ("C:\Scripts\New_users.xls")
- intRow = 2
- Do Until objExcel.Cells(intRow,1).Value = ""
- Wscript.Echo "CN: " & objExcel.Cells(intRow, 1).Value
- Wscript.Echo "sAMAccountName: " & objExcel.Cells(intRow, 2).Value
- Wscript.Echo "GivenName: " & objExcel.Cells(intRow, 3).Value
- Wscript.Echo "LastName: " & objExcel.Cells(intRow, 4).Value
- intRow = intRow + 1
- Loop
- objExcel.Quit