Excel report - lauch VBA function automatically

Hi Experts,
I'm working on a Excel report (BI7.0) for stocks and goods movement.
I want to underline low stock and to do this, i create a macro in VBA to change the cell's background in red.
My code runs perfectly when i click on the button to launch the function.
But now, i want to lauch this function automatically.
1) open the workbook
2) enter the parameters
3) display the table
4) CHANGE THE COLOR for low stock cells
I'm unable to find how to launch the function "on step 4", and my cells stay again and again with white background.
Can you help me?
Thanks a lot,
Adrien

What if I were using Adobe 9.0, what would my vba code look like?
The reason that I'm changing to Print As vs File Save As is due to the file size.
Print As - makes the file about 100k
File Save As - make the file about 10M
My vba works fine when sending to "File Save As *.pdf", but when I change it to Print As PDF, the vba won't capture the filename automatically from my vba code.
What would my vba look like if I were using 9.0 to get Print As PDF to capture the filename automatically?
Or tell me how to decrease the file size when vba calls "File Save As *.pdf".
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news:3e79a3aa$0$140$[email protected]..
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have experienced (and solved) this behaviour?
>
> I've been using the report generation toolkit to build word report without
> problem. I've also solved a lot of problems in the excel part of the
toolkit
> (e.g. building graphs with >20000 points). It finally works in development
> environment.
>
> Now when I install the executable (, with the installer) the word reports
> still work, but the excel report don't. The executable does run on a
> different system, but the excel versions are the same (both Excel 2000).
>
> I have copied the excel library in the data directory of the executable.
>
> The following error is generated:
>
> -2147319784
> Old format or invalid type library
> Excel_Open.vi
>
> This is the first report generation vi that is called. I use it to open a
> temp
late.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Wiebe.
>
>

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