open a pdf using vba in excel

Question posted 2013 · +4 upvotes

I’m trying to open all appropriate PDFs found in the same directory as my Excel workbook using VBA. I’ve added the Adobe Acrobat xx.x Type Library reference to the project. But when I try to create the .App object I get a “Run-time error ‘429’:” error.

What am I missing?

Here’s the code;

Sub ImportNames()
Dim BlrInfoFileList() As String, NbrOfFiles As Integer, FileNameStr As String
Dim X As Integer, pdfApp As AcroApp, pdfDoc As AcroAVDoc


'Find all of the Contact Information PDFs
FileNameStr = Dir(ThisWorkbook.Path & "*Contact Information.pdf")
NbrOfFiles = 0
Do Until FileNameStr = ""
    NbrOfFiles = NbrOfFiles + 1
    ReDim Preserve BlrInfoFileList(NbrOfFiles)
    BlrInfoFileList(NbrOfFiles) = FileNameStr
    FileNameStr = Dir()
Loop

For X = 1 To NbrOfFiles
    FileNameStr = ThisWorkbook.Path & "" & BlrInfoFileList(X)
    Set pdfApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
    pdfApp.Hide

    Set pdfDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
    pdfDoc.Open FileNameStr, vbNormalFocus

    SendKeys ("^a")
    SendKeys ("^c")
    SendKeys "%{F4}"

    ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Raw Data").Range("A1").Select
    SendKeys ("^v")
    Set pdfApp = Nothing
    Set pdfDoc = Nothing

    'Process Raw Data and Clear the sheet for the next PDF Document
Next X
End Sub