Formatting outputted Excel files from Access using VBA?

Question

Here I have some VBA code that outputs a ton of files into Excel files. My question is, from this, is there anyway for it to Format the excel file a bit? What I would like t

Answer 1

Yes it is possible! This is hacked together from one of my codes, might need a bit of editing before it works...

'This deals with Excel already being open or not
On Error Resume Next
Set xl = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
On Error GoTo 0
If xl Is Nothing Then
  Set xl = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
End If

Set XlBook = GetObject(filename)
'filename is the string with the link to the file ("C:/....blahblah.xls")

'Make sure excel is visible on the screen
xl.Visible = True
XlBook.Windows(1).Visible = True
'xl.ActiveWindow.Zoom = 75

'Define the sheet in the Workbook as XlSheet
Set xlsheet1 = XlBook.Worksheets(1)

'Then have some fun!
with xlsheet1
    .range("A1") = "some data here"
    .columns("A:A").HorizontalAlignment = xlRight
    .rows("1:1").font.bold = True
end with

'And so on...