title: Call Excel VBA from Word
body: <p>We have a standard form in MS Word to manually fill in details and launch a macro. This macro will open a MS Excel register to auto populate it from the fields in the Word document whilst doing other things.</p>
  
  <p>The current solution has a keyboard shortcut for the macro in the Excel spreadsheet and the Word document macro sends the keys strokes to the opened Excel spreadsheet to launch the macro. This only works for a few people in the office.</p>
  
  <p>Can I call my Excel macro directly from the Word macro while my Excel spreadsheet is in focus or is there a Windows setting that is blocking my send keys to launch the macro?</p>