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Jnsn.dev · Jul 8, 2021

Word Macro Stuff

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Faced with over 100 Word VBA macros and a request for information about which macros call a certain webservice. How do you get that information without going insane? With a lot of python, some Windows black magic, and a couple of open Microsoft “standards”. Recently a team came to me to ask if it was possible to figure out who called one of our old applications. The application is a…

Faced with over 100 Word VBA macros and a request for information about which macros call a certain webservice. How do you get that information without going insane? With a lot of python, some Windows black magic, and a couple of open Microsoft “standards”.

Recently a team came to me to ask if it was possible to figure out who called one of our old applications. The application is a horrible pain for the team maintaining it, and they’d like to shut it down. Not least because it’s basically impossible to build. They had traced down a lot of applications already, but they were stuck on a folder brimming with Word VBA macros. From experience, they knew some of them called this application, but which?

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