How can I schedule a Macro to run automatically in Access 2007

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alexcoco picture alexcoco · Oct 23, 2010 · Viewed 51.9k times · Source

I'd like to have a macro, called Macro1, for example, run every day at 9 AM. It works great on its own from the VB code editor in Access 2007 but I would like it to be able to execute automatically without access being open.

Please note that I don't want there to have to be any human intervention, it needs to be able to run automatically without someone opening Access to trigger autoexec or onload or something similar.

Is this at all possible?

Answer

David-W-Fenton picture David-W-Fenton · Oct 23, 2010

You can use a MS Access command line switch to run a macro. If you search for "commandline" in Access help, the topic "Startup command-line options" gives you all the commandline switches. The switch for running a macro is x macro.

So, if you write your macro to run whatever you want and have it exit Access when it finishes, you can then create a commandline that will do the trick and put it in a batch file that the Windows Task Scheduler can execute.

However, as I said in a comment above, if you are just running some queries, I'd say it makes more sense to bypass Access entirely and use DAO directly in a scheduled vbScript to execute the queries.

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