Excel Add-in: New Instance of Excel Event Handler

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I have devised some code to execute a method whenever a new workbook named "Book1.xls" is opened using an event handler :

Excel.AppEvents_WorkbookOpenEventHandler(Application_WorkbookOpen)

Is there a similar event handler for when a new instance of excel is created?

I have a situation where I would like my add-on to be executed under two conditions: 1) the user presses a button OR 2) the user exports a data table from a 3rd party program, and when that excel table opens, that event is handled by running the method. I have it working now with the current event handler, but I just found out that when I export the excel file from the 3rd party program, it opens it up in a new instance of excel, so my add-on does not "see" the new "Book1.xls" created. Thanks in advance!

Posted 19-Jul-12 16:41pm

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Updated 19-Jul-12 16:56pm

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2012-09-04T22:27:00

List of avalible events for MS Excel Application, you can find here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel.application_events.aspx[^]

The most interesting events are:
NewWorkbook - Occurs when a new workbook is created. (Inherited from AppEvents_Event.) 'prefered
WorkbookBeforeXmlExport - Occurs before Microsoft Excel saves or exports data from any open workbook to an XML data file. (Inherited from AppEvents_Event.)
WorkbookBeforeXmlImport - Occurs before an existing XML data connection is refreshed or new XML data is imported into any open Microsoft Excel workbook. (Inherited from AppEvents_Event.)