How to Open a Word Document From Excel Using VBA. Millions of small businesses all around the world use Microsoft Word and Excel daily to create correspondence or crunch numbers.

You have an Excel 2011 spreadsheet compiling sales data and a sales report that you're writing in Word 2011: How do you get the Excel numbers into your report? Here's a simple Visual Basic macro ...

VBA and Security Concerns Keep in mind that if you write code in VBA and embed it in an Excel or Word file, the file will get a distinct extension indicating that it contains macro code.