Help Modifying Export To Excel.

Hi guys, me again. Have a few functions that I would like to put into action.
1)
I currently have the following code that exports multiple queries to excel. All works great I am happy to say. Currently the date criteria are hard coded into the queries. Well now my users would like to enter date ranges instead. Currently when I click on my toggle button, the users are asked if they are sure they want to start export to excel. I still want that to happen, but how can I change my code to prompt for startdate and enddate before running the export. I would rather use an input boxes to enter the date range instead of using a form. Would this be possible?

2)
Right now excel is displayed on the screen while the export is in process, how can I hide excel and then have it appear after its done with export. If the user clicks within excel during export, it sometimes freezes. And how can I apply my module for the progress bar to display the progress of the export. I have provided the code of the progress bar that I am using, that I found on this forum.

Many thanks for any suggestions.



Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Public Function ExportDataExcel()
Dim strFilePath As String
Dim strFileName As String
Dim strFileTemplate As String
Dim strMacroName As String


If (MsgBox("You are about to generate the LAR Monthly Report. Are you sure you wish to continue? You cannot cancel this procedure once started.", vbOKCancel) = vbCancel) Then
Exit Function
End If

'''''''''''''UPDATE THIS DATA WITH YOURS''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
'Fill in the following with your files and path
strFilePath = "R:Call CenterCall Center DepartmentsMortgage DeptMortgage Statistics & Tracking"
strFileName = "BigLarOutput.xls"
strFileTemplate = "BigLarTemplate.xls"
strMacroName = "DeleteBlank"
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''

'This deletes the old file
Kill strFilePath & strFileName
'This recreates your file with the template
FileCopy strFilePath & strFileTemplate, strFilePath & strFileName


'This is a custom function I built to set Excel as an object and you can access/export
'to a workbook programmatically. 'openexcel' is stored in a module called Functions.
'This will open the new file that was created previously

openexcel strFilePath & strFileName

'''''''''''''UPDATE THIS DATA WITH YOURS''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
'Export data is another function that will export your data.
'Update the query Names to your real Query Names
'Update the Sheet Names accordingly, with the Query it is assiged to
ExportData "qryHoeqDotApproved", "HOEQ DOT APPROVED"
ExportData "qryHoeqDotReceived", "HOEQ DOT RECEIVED"
ExportData "qryHoeqDotDenied", "HOEQ DOT DENIED"

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''


xl.ActiveWorkbook.Save
'The Application.Run will run the Macro(s) that you saved in your spreadsheet
xl.Application.Run "'" & strFileName & "'!" & strMacroName
xl.ActiveWorkbook.Save

'Uncomment/Comment these to close out the workbook
'xl.ActiveWorkbook.Close
'xl.Quit

Set xl = Nothing

End Function


Private Function ExportData(strQuery As String, strSheet As String)
Dim intR As Integer
Dim rs As Recordset

'After you open that Object/Workbook, you refer to that workbook now as 'xl'. You will
'use it later, but now you have to access your queries through this code and to do so
'you need to use a recordset.

'strQuery is the name of the Query that you passed with the Function. You can also
'use an SQL string.
Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(strQuery)
rs.MoveLast 'moves to the last record
rs.MoveFirst 'moves back to the first record

'You can use record count to make sure there are records in your Query/Recordset
If rs.RecordCount < 1 Then
'There are no records
MsgBox "There are no records for " & strQuery
Else
'There are 1 or more records. Now Select the sheet that you will be exporting to
xl.Sheets(strSheet).Select

'Now you need to loop through the records. 'intR' was dimmed at beginning of this
'function and will now use it to create a loop or 'For, Next'

'Starts with record 1 and gets the count of records in the recordset so it knows where
'to stop.
For intR = 1 To rs.RecordCount
'Now we need to export the recordset/query to the workbook/object we opened earlier.
'Remember 'rs' refers to the recordset & 'xl' refers to the workbook

'xl.cells(ROW,COLUMN).VALUE = rs.fields(INDEX).
'This is how you will fill in the value of a cell on the workbook. For the ROW you
'will want to add + 1 if you have Headings on your sheet. The INDEX for rs.fields
'refers to the columns of the recordset/query. The first column of the recordset
'starts with the index of zero.

xl.cells(intR + 3, 1).Value = rs.Fields(0)
xl.cells(intR + 3, 2).Value = rs.Fields(1)
xl.cells(intR + 3, 3).Value = rs.Fields(2)
xl.cells(intR + 3, 4).Value = rs.Fields(3)
xl.cells(intR + 3, 5).Value = rs.Fields(4)
xl.cells(intR + 3, 6).Value = rs.Fields(5)


'If there are more columns to add than this just follow what I have above

'Moves to the next record
rs.MoveNext
Next intR 'Loops back to For and enters data for the next row

'Once the export is done, this just puts the cursor to A1 on each sheet
xl.range("A1").Select

'Clears the recordset
rs.Close
Set rs = Nothing

End If

End Function

' Code inside progressbar module

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Function RunProgressBar(lLth As Long)

If IsLoaded("frmSplash") Then
Forms!frmSplash!Box20.Width = lLth
End If

End Function

Function IsLoaded(ByVal strFormName As String) As Boolean
On Error GoTo Err_IsLoaded

Const conObjStateClosed = 0
Const conDesignView = 0

If SysCmd(acSysCmdGetObjectState, acForm, strFormName) <> conObjStateClosed Then
If Forms(strFormName).CurrentView <> conDesignView Then
IsLoaded = True
End If
End If

Exit_IsLoaded:
Exit Function

Err_IsLoaded:
MsgBox Err.Description, , " Service Operations"
Resume Exit_IsLoaded

End Function

Public Function Pause(NumberOfSeconds As Variant)
On Error GoTo Err_Pause

Dim PauseTime As Variant, Start As Variant

PauseTime = NumberOfSeconds
Start = Timer
Do While Timer < Start + PauseTime
DoEvents
Loop

Exit_Pause:
Exit Function

Err_Pause:
MsgBox Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description
Resume Exit_Pause

End Function