I have a workbook that is connected to a database and when you refresh the workbook, it refreshes your data in the workbook. Afterwards a macro is ran to save the new (raw) data in two different locations, then the macro will do analysis on that raw data, and save the same workbook later on in 4 other locations.
When I am trying to do the first save of the raw data, I am able to save to the first location, but when it moves to the second location I am getting the error: Run-time error '1004': Method 'SaveAs' of object '_Workbook' failed. Both of the locations are valid locations.
Here is one sub in the macro that does the first file save:
Sub saveraw()
Dim rdate As String
Dim rawfilename As String, rawfilename1 As String
Dim mywb As Workbook
Set mywb = ActiveWorkbook
rdate = Format(Now(), "mm-dd-yy")
rawfilename = "\\sw\mes\PS\SC\SCM_Supply_Execution\Spares\This Weeks Number Database\This Weeks Numbers(raw) " & rdate & ".xlsm"
rawfilename1 = "\\sw\mes\PS\SC\SCM_Shared\Spares Reports\This Weeks Numbers(raw) " & rdate & ".xlsm"
mywb.Save
Worksheets("Sheet2").Range("A2") = Null
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
mywb.SaveAs Filename:=rawfilename
mywb.SaveAs Filename:=rawfilename1
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
I have also tried using the method of
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs
in place of both of the mywb.SaveAs, but that did not work either.
As a test, run the code against file locations only YOU have access to. I'm noticing a reference to shared drive on the second command so maybe someone is already in it and it can't be saved over.
Set display alerts to true for now.
Also, When you run the test macro, make sure you don't have any windows explorer windows open and feed back here with results and I'll assist if it debugs again.
On the face of it, the code looks good to me.
Try this
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:="\\sw\mes\PS\SC\SCM_Supply_Execution\Spares\This Weeks Number Database\This Weeks Numbers(raw) " & rdate & ".xlsm" _
, FileFormat:=xlOpenXMLWorkbookMacroEnabled
This might have issues if the file already exists because then a pop-up will ask you if you want to overwrite it or not
Though I think the error is due to an issue with privileges in that specific location or connection issues
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I'm attempting to open a workbook, but Excel gives me an error message saying that it cannot find the workbook.
Dim pricing As Workbook
dim fname As String
fname = Dir(ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\Budget Pricing Detail*.csv")
Set pricing = Workbooks.Open(Filename:=fname, UpdateLinks:=False)
As you can see I'm using a wildcard to pull the file name as the last bit of the filename will be different for each instance. What's weird to me as that when Excel gives me the error box it actually names the WHOLE file (even though I never did in my code) I want it to find and says it can't find it. Also what's weird is that this was working already and all of a sudden now it isn't.
I think DIR only returns the filename, and not the entire path. Try:
fname = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\" & Dir(ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\Budget Pricing Detail*.csv")
I'm creating a macro where I will need to run it in 1 file (called "Masterfile"), it will open and execute the macro on another file ("SurveyReport") and then give me a message box saying "done!".
The code I have to execute on the SurveyReport file works fine when I open that file manually and execute it. The code I need to open SurveyReport from MasterFile is also working it seems, I ran the below with no issues:
Sub PivotTable()
'
' PivotTable Macro
Dim MasterFile As String
MasterFile = ActiveWorkbook.Name
Dim SurveyReport As String
SurveyReport = Application.GetOpenFilename("Excel files (*.xlsx), *xlsx", 1, "Please select the Survey Create Report file", , False)
Workbooks.Open (SurveyReport)
End Sub
But, when I try to activate the SurveyReport file so I can begin executing the macro in it, I get a "Subscript out of range" error. I've tried using the following code after the above block and before the code to execute in the SurveyReport file:
Windows(SurveyReport).Activate
This didn't work, not did:
ThisWorkbook.Activate
...which only had the effect of activating the MasterFile.
SurveyReport file is a .xlsx file. I tried saving it as a .xls file and amending the code, but no joy.
I also tried passing it the file name directly (i.e. Windows("filename.xlsx").Activate), same issue.
ActiveWorkbook is as it says on the tin - whichever workbook happens to be active when the code runs.
ThisWorkbook is always the workbook that the code is sitting in.
You can SET references to specific workbooks rather than just using their names each time. A name can change, or reference the wrong object.... imagine you have a friend called Darren. Each time you mention him you mention him by name. Someone that doesn't know Darren hasn't a clue which Darren out of all the ones available in the world you're talking about. Now imagine you have a little replica of Darren in your pocket... nah, that's a terrible anology - it wouldn't be a replica, it would be a reference to the real Darren... anyway, I digress.
This code sets a reference to the workbook, you can then use that reference any time you want to refer to the correct workbook:
Sub PivotTable()
Dim MasterFile As Workbook
Dim SurveyRptName As String
Dim SurveyReport As Workbook
Set MasterFile = ThisWorkbook '
SurveyRptName = Application.GetOpenFilename("Excel files (*.xlsx), *xlsx", 1, _
"Please select the Survey Create Report file", , False)
If SurveyRptName <> "False" Then
Set SurveyReport = Workbooks.Open(SurveyRptName)
End If
SurveyReport.Activate 'You don't need this line. It doesn't matter if
'the workbook is active, the code knows which one
'you're talking about in the next line.
MsgBox "This is " & SurveyReport.Name & _
" containing " & SurveyReport.Worksheets.Count & " sheets." & vbCr & _
"The value in cell A1 of the first sheet is " & _
SurveyReport.Worksheets(1).Range("A1")
End Sub
Edit: Of course, if you press Cancel when selecting a file then the lines following the IF...THEN code won't have a reference to work on and you'll get a Object Variable or With block variable not set - best not to run the bottom bit of code if you haven't successfully opened the Survey Report file.
The part of the answer that is missing - is that he tried to call a method of an object when his variable was STRING - the open command and subsequent commands will give you an OBJECT - which has properties and methods like .Activate. The STRING type has no such method or property (to be sure - it may have others).
the solution provided by Darren solves this by declaring his SurveyReport as type Workbook - an object of Excel.
I am getting the error specified in the title of this issue when trying to copy and paste some columns (and it's data) to a new workbook.
The code below used to work till the moment when I add a new sheet with a new pivot table in my workbook, and I don't know the reason:
Sub ExtractData_2()
Workbooks.Add
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs ThisWorkbook.Path & "\extract_Fcst" & ".csv", 6
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Forecast Enrichment").Activate
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Forecast Enrichment").Range("E:S").Copy Destination:=Workbooks("extract_Fcst.csv").Sheets(1).Range("A:O")
Workbooks("extract_Fcst.csv").Sheets(1).Range("A:O").EntireColumn.AutoFit
End Sub
Does anybody have any idea to how to solve that problem? I have tried a lot of different solutions found in google but any of it works!
Use object variables and assign properly, then break up your copy/Destination to see whether the error raises on the Copy or the Paste, as follows:
Sub ExtractData_2()
Dim csvWorkbook as Workbook
Set csvWorkbook = Workbooks.Add
csvWorkbook.SaveAs ThisWorkbook.Path & "\extract_Fcst" & ".csv", 6
' Unnecessary to "Activate" the sheet...", so you can delete this:
' ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Forecast Enrichment").Activate
'Try using copy/paste as separate statements to see where the failure may occur
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Forecast Enrichment").Range("E:S").Copy
csvWorkbook.Sheets(1).Range("A1").Select
csvWorkbook.Sheets(1).Paste
csvWorkbook.Sheets(1).Range("A:O").EntireColumn.AutoFit
End Sub
If it still raises the error, let me know which line it happens.
I am writing a program that currently, when the user clicks "OK", saves the current file, copies certain values in the file; then pastes the values to a different file. Then both files close. My problem is that it gives me an error:
Run Time Error: 'Application-Defined or Object Defined Error'
It highlights this line:
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("data").Range("C31", Range("C106").End (xlToRight)).Copy
I separated this line and the one right after it to test it alone and it worked like I wanted to. I tested the rest of the program without those two lines and it worked like I expected it to.
I tried to limit it to just copying one cell and it worked.
I made sure that the name of the sheet was correct.
I tried to just copy one row:
Range("C31", range("C31").End(xlToRight))
it still did not work and I came across the same error message.
I want to say I referenced something wrong but I don't see it.
Any reply at all would be helpful, Thank you.
P.S. I am sorry for redundancy in the code, I don't use "Dim" as much as I should.
Sub Button425_Click()
Dim FName As String
Dim FPath As String
Dim yourmsg As String
Dim testmsg As String
yourmsg = "Are you sure that you want to save and exit?"
testmsg = MsgBox(yourmsg, vbOKCancel + vbExclamation)
FPath = "I:\a\d\f\daily log recycle\"
FName = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C3").Text
If testmsg = 1 Then
ThisWorkbook.SaveAs filename:=FPath & "\" & FName
Workbooks.Open ("I:\a\d\f\new daily log 1.xlsm")
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("data").Range("C31", Range("C31").End(xlToRight)).Copy
Workbooks("new daily log 1.xlsm").Worksheets("data").Range("D31").PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("sheet1").Range("E45").Copy
Workbooks("new daily log 1.xlsm").Worksheets("sheet1").Range("E44").PasteSpecial
Workbooks("new daily log 1.xlsm").Worksheets("sheet1").Range("E45").ClearContents
Workbooks("new daily log 1.xlsm").Save
Workbooks("new daily log 1.xlsm").Close
ThisWorkbook.Saved = True
Application.Quit
Else 'do nothing
End If
End Sub
You're mixing a fully addressed range
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("data").Range("C31"
with a relatively addressed range
Range("C106").End (xlToRight)
Try
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("data").Range("C31", ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("data").Range("C106").End (xlToRight))
I see a couple of issues:
FPath = "I:\a\d\f\daily log recycle\"
ThisWorkbook.SaveAs filename:=FPath & "\" & FName
When you attempt to save you will have ...\daily log recycle\\<filename>. Remove one of the backslashes \, I'd suggest removing the one in the .SaveAs line.
Then, with these two lines:
Workbooks.Open ("I:\a\d\f\new daily log 1.xlsm")
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("data").Range("C31", Range("C31").End(xlToRight)).Copy
The ThisWorkbook probably isn't pointing to the one you think it is. On all the following lines you specify Workbooks("new daily log 1.xlsm")., why don't you replace ThisWorkbook with an explicit Workbooks("...") so you can be 100% certain of which of the two open workbooks you're referencing.
I would also do that for these two lines:
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("sheet1").Range("E45").Copy
ThisWorkbook.Saved = True
Also, just to be clear, ThisWorkbook.Saved = True tells Excel to not prompt you to save the workbook when you close it, but it doesn't actually save the workbook. If you want to actually save it, you'll need to use .Save, just like you do a couple lines above that for Workbooks("new daily log 1.xlsm").Save.
I wrote the following code so that when an Excel spreadsheet is closed it will update its name with the current date and time:
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
If ThisWorkbook.Name = "Name_Last Opened-" & Format(Date, "MM-DD-YYYY") & _
"_" & Format(Time, "HH.MM") & ".xls" Then
Else
ThisWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:="\\C:\... Name_Last Opened-" & _
Format(Date, "MM-DD-YYYY") & "_" & Format(Time, "HH.MM") & ".xls"
FName = Sheets("Name").Range("D1").Text
Kill FName
End If
End Sub
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Range("A1").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = ThisWorkbook.Name
End Sub
Additionally, the code is located within VBAProject(Name of file), under MS Excel Object - ThisWorkbook.
This code works perfectly for me or the workstation that it was created on; however, it does not execute for anyone who opens it on their worstation. Would anyone know how to get the code to execute whenever the spreadsheet is opened and closed from any computer, not just mine?
Thank you,
DFM
It's possible that Excel's security settings aren't allowing other people's computers to run the script that could be interpreted as risky malware. Perhaps you changed your security settings so long ago that you forgot about it. See if you can modify another user's security settings to see if that will make the macro execute on the workbook close.
"Would anyone know how to get the code to execute whenever the spreadsheet is opened and closed from any computer, not just mine?"
I don't think it can be done with 100% certainty unless you can ensure that every possible user will have macro security set such that your macro can execute.
Assuming you can get past that one, you should perhaps check that the users all have the worksheet in the same hard-coded path on C:\ that you seem to be using. What happens if they open the workbook from a different location?
Also:
FName = Sheets("Name").Range("D1").Text
is getting a value from one place and
Range("A1").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = ThisWorkbook.Name
is putting it in another.
I think I'd try something like the following (which assumes from your code that you actually only want to change the file name if it has not changed since the minute of the current time changed):
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
Dim dateTime As String
Dim oldPath As String
Dim newPath As String
dateTime = Format(Now, "MM-DD-YYYY_HH.MM") ' Format the while thing in one string - once
With ThisWorkbook
oldPath = .FullName ' what is it called now, and where did it come from?
newPath = .Path & "\" & "Name_Last Opened-" & dateTime & ".xls" ' what should it be called now?
If oldPath <> newPath Then ' only do something if not saved in last minute - is that what you really want?
.SaveAs Filename:=newPath
Kill oldPath
End If
End With
End Sub
Date() function needs administrator access to run.. so if your user is a non admin, then it will fail. Instead use now(). Most of the times this is some thing which we usually forget as we(people developing the tool) have admin access over our PC's
Fundamentally, you cannot ensure that all users will a) have a macro security setting of low or medium, and b) if set to medium, enable them when the file is opened.
Creating your own certificate would seem like the obvious answer, but in practice I find that the resultant messages and warnings are even more confusing/frightening for some end users, leading to much the same situation as with macro security. Third-party certificates avoid this, but are $$$ and almost surely overkill for an Excel workbook in a corporate environment.
What I've done where I need users to have VBA enabled is to set all sheets to xlveryhidden on save, except a custom locked sheet that only has a note saying macros must be enabled and a brief guide on how to do this. This sheet is hidden and the others restored by the workbook's workbook_open procedure, something that of course will not fire if VBA is disabled.