Open an Access database and run one of its Macros from Excel

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Published on 2010-05-25T13:27:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 13:31 UTC
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From Excel, I need to open an Access database and run one of the database's macros.

I'm using Excel and Access 2007. Here is my code in Excel:

Sub accessMacro()

   Dim appAccess As New Access.Application

   Set appAccess = Access.Application

   appAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase "C:\blah.mdb"

   appAccess.Visible = True

   appAccess.DoCmd.RunMacro "RunQueries.RunQueries"
   appAccess.CloseCurrentDatabase

End Sub

In the Access Database, there is a procedure named RunQueries in a module named RunQueries. Each time I run this, I get the following error:

Runtime error '2485':

Microsoft Access Office can't find the object 'RunQueries.'

I have also tried:

appAccess.DoCmd.RunMacro "RunQueries" 

and I get the same errors message. Any idea how to do this? By the way, I could go into a long explanation about why I need to do this, but let me just say that I've already argued against it, and I have to do it this way (meaning, I have to use Excel as a frontend to open several Access dbs and run their macros).

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