misodca Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Hello, I am using AutoIt only for a while but I have one small (?) problem. How could I change active window to excel? e.g. script is automatically starting at 16:00 but I forgot to close IE which is now active and not excel where runs macro but needs some interaction throung this auto it script ... so I need in this script first of all detect if excel is active and if not active excel, could anyone please help me? thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omikron48 Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Checking is done through WinActive. Switching active window is done through WinActivate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misodca Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 thanks If anyone need help > I've just added this : WinActivate("Microsoft Excel") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehran5801 Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 not working what is the class name of excel ? WinActivate([CLASS:??????????],"") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Welcome to AutoIt and the forum! Please do not necro 6 year old posts. The OP and all participants have been offline for about 5-6 years. Open a new thread describing what you try to achieve. I guess the solution will be the Excel UDF My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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