Excel.ExportAsFixedFormat Method in MS Excel in VB.NET

Posted in VB.NET | VBA on November 09, 2019

Tags: Excel.ExportAsFixedFormat Method, MS Excel, MS Excel tutorial

In this article I am going to explain about how to export a range of data in a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet to PDF or XPS format.

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Introduction

In this article I am going to explain about how to export a range of data in a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet to PDF or XPS format. For this we use Excel.ExportAsFixedFormat Method. Using this method we can export a range of data in a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet to PDF or XPS format.

Microsoft Office 2010 offer some powerful tools, using this tools you can create application. Using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) you can create your own application according to your need. These application can performer some specific task.

For creating application we can use

VBA host of Excel 2010
VBA host of PowerPoint 2010
VBA host of Word 2010

NOTE : OneNote 2010 is not a VBA host.

Code that we use in this application are given below

Sub TestExportAsFixedFormat()

    ' For information on the final parameter, see this page:
    ' http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338206.aspx

    Dim rng As Rang
    rng = Range("A1:E10")
    SetupRangeData(rng)
    Dim fileName As String
    ' Change this file name to meet your own needs:

    fileName = "D:\vipendra\msdn\excel\e11\Export.pdf"

    ' Many of these properties are optional, and are included
    ' here only to demonstrate how you might use them. The
    ' Type parameter can be one of xlTypePDF and xlTypeXLS;
    ' the Quality parameter can be one of xlQualityStandard and
    ' xlQualityMinimum. Setting the OpenAfterPublish property
    ' to True will fail if you don't have a default viewer
    ' installed and configured.

    rng.ExportAsFixedFormat(Type:=xlTypePDF, _
    fileName:=fileName, Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
    IncludeDocProperties:=True, IgnorePrintAreas:=True, _
    From:=1, To:=1, OpenAfterPublish:=True)
End Sub