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Application Property

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Used without an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the Microsoft Excel application. Used with an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object (you can use this property with an OLE Automation object to return that object's application). Read-only.

expression.Application

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Example

This example displays a message about the application that created myObject.

  Set myObject = ActiveWorkbook
If myObject.Application.Value = "Microsoft Excel" Then
    MsgBox "This is a Microsoft Excel object"
Else
    MsgBox "This is not a Microsoft Excel object"
End If