I want to search and open an excel file named remote.xls
I want to store that excel file into a variable, so i can use it further
But the problem is that I dont know the exact path because for every user, the location is different.
But I know for certain that it is in C:\ drive.
How can I find it using VBA?
I know 2 methods :
1) using dir
2) using application.FileSearch
But the 2nd one is closed now. I am left with the first one..but I am not sure..how to use it
there are several other threads. I have tried those method but have not been successful.
Why different? I want to search with the exact file name and not using wildcards
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I am currently working on a tool to automatically send out emails.
Within this tool one variable is the pathway in which the attachment is to be found.
The file names are automatically generated within a folder, but sometimes got strange symbols and/or uppercase letters, like this: "Sⁿkwrld.xlsx".
By collecting this value within a string, VBA retrieves: "Snkwrld.xlsx". This results in not being able to find the right file.
Is there a way to fix this problem and let VBA retrieve the correct value with the uppercase "N"?
Thanks in advance!
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Remco Coppens
I am here for seeking any advice or opinion as I want to loop through every excel files in folder. As you can see from my attached picture, my excel files are different both in file types (.xls <> .xlsx) and filename (especially on 2018). I also need to loop through "Revised" or "revised" files as well since it is possibly that any file will be revised next time.
And yes, I also did some research on this. My understanding is I need to modify all of the file names into the pattern one before build up a VBA to loop. At first, I thought about decomposing all filenames and put it back in pattern form, but it sound too idealistic. Another way is using the date in each file to label the workbook name, but again I found that those date had different styles. Some files label the date by using string such as "January 2012" or "March 2014", while the others using the date form such as "19/08/2013".
Therefore, I would be appreciated if anyone could suggest me on;
How can I handle with the different file name (.xls and .xlsx) within the same VBA?
How should I deal with these different file names (some files have "revised" at the back; some do not have "-" between "Cons" and date; and some use month name instead of number)? Are they any pattern that I overlook?
Please noted that I am just a newbie VBA coder, so it would be great if you left your answers with an explanation or any kind of examples.
Many thanks.
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First of all sorry for my poor explanation before. I provided too few information to understand overall picture. Let's start this over again.
My data are about steel consumption which release from the authority
every month. My task is to gather all of these data (such as
production, import, export and consumption of every data in each
row) and generate into time series pattern (please see attached
excel screen)
As it is possibly that these data will be revised anytime, I thus
decide to download all of these file every time in every month (one
file per one month). In addition to those revised file, the
authority will unexpectedly rename those file for example, from
"Cons 201601.xlsx" into "Cons 201601 - revised.xlsx)". This make me
more difficult to work on this (please see attached folder for
reference).
Moreover, this authority seems to have a problem with file naming as
they had different pattern of filename in the past compare to the
present ones. Example is per below table; Cons 201701-Revised.xlsx
Cons 201710-Revised1.xlsx
Cons 201711.xlsx
Cons-200902.xls
Cons-201212_revise.xls
Cons-201401-revised.xls
I mention above file name in order to create a VBA to loop through
these file, select some content and paste into another workbook in
chronological order. This means that I cannot use "Loop while or Do
while function" in my VBA. At first I decided to use two integer
variables, both of which were set for years and months
(e.g. For i = 2009 to 2018 and For j = 1 to 12) in order to created the system of filename (such as filename = "Cons" & "-" & i & j). But,
as I stated before, non-patterned name by the authority had
prevented me from creating this kind of loop.
I also tried to use the date in cell B2 in figure 1 to label the
date in order to create the loop which I already explained before.
However, again, the authority did not use the same pattern to date
month and year. After I checked with many file, these are example of
the date style in cell B2 January 2012 (string)
February 2009 (string)
Jan-16 (1/1/2016 date in custom format)
Given above limitations, could you guys again suggest me any possible
way to create chronological loop so as to copy and paste data to another
workbook to form a set of time series data for each product?
Thank you for your kind help :)
Firstly, use FileSystemObject (include a reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime in your VBA project) which has some helpful functions within it. You could always code your own, but why reinvent the wheel in this case?
Don't have time to codes something this morning, so here is the pseudocode:
Open a Folder using your known filepath
Loop through all the files in the Folder (For each f in Folder.Files
extract the date code from your filename (e.g. using RegEx)
Add to a collection (e.g. array or Dictionary item) of the filename and the extracted date code (your key).
(end loop)
Sort your collection based on the extracted date code
This now gives you an ordered list of files, which you can open in turn and extract the data. An added bonus is that the key in the collection gives you a consistent date representation which you can use as an index in your collated information.
If you just want to loop through all files in folder use this:
dim file as variant
file = Dir("<PathToFolder>")
While (file <> "")
'Your logic here
file = Dir
wend
My Question is I have a folder with a name "xyz" somewhere, for example it is on desktop and there are 2 excel files namely a,b in that xyz folder. I work in excel workbook "a" which consist of two names i,j in some cell values for example i is in cellA1, j is in A2.
Now I want to rename excel files a,b with i,j with of without opening or closing files after renaming. It is possible. If possible please post me the code. I have no code....please provide from scratch
I think you will find the answer by a simple search of previous questions. I easily found this which should get you on the right path:
Renaming files with vba
I have used the "Hex Editor to modify DPB to DPx" many times in the past to bypass VBA project security on my old Excel VBA projects (.xls), so I definitely know how to do it and know that I can do it.
However I have just tried to do it yesterday and found that it no longer seems to work. I tried using both Excel 2011 (Mac) and Excel 2003 (Windows) and in both cases, I got the same behaviour;
Opening the VBA editor gave a message saying that the project is corrupted and that the project will be removed. The VBA editor then opens and, sure enough, all VBA is stripped out from modules and worksheets.
I have tried this method:
Is there a way to crack the password on an Excel VBA Project? (ie. creating a spreadsheet with a known password and then copying across the relevant fields)
But find that the length of the "GC" key created on my 'dummy' spreadsheet is shorter than the "GC" key on the spreadsheet that I am wishing to access (the "target"). I had read elsewhere that in cases where the "target" keys were longer, you could pad the "dummy" keys to the same length but there is nothing i can find to say what to do in the reverse case.
So - my questions (s);
Is anyone aware if a patch has been applied that makes the "hex editor" approach invalid?
Can anyone help with what to do when the dummy keys are longer than the target keys?
Can anyone else provide any updated onsite into this issue?
EDIT
Having now solved this (to some degree) i thought i'd add a summary here.
I HAVE NOT been able to get this to work on Mac Excel 2011. Something about changing the file from filname.xlsm to fielname.zip and back again results in a corrupted excel file which Excel 2011 refuses to recognise.
I DID manage to get this to work on an old windows machine (XP/Excel 2007) by modifying the .xlsm file name to .zip, editing the DPB= AND GC= values in the vbaproject.bin file with a hex editor then saving this in the .zip file before renaming the .zip back to xlsm. I used the "test" example given by Ricko at the bottom and it worked with ONE CAVEAT - i had to 'pad' out my GC value to make it that same length as the original one in my file.
ORIGINAL: GC="0F0DA36FAF938494849484"
NEW: (TEST) GC="BAB816BBF4BCF4BCF4" (from Ricko below)
NEW: (TEST) GC="BAB816BBF4BCF4BCF40000" (what i used and what worked)
I have your answer, as I just had the same problem today:
Someone made a working vba code that changes the vba protection password to "macro", for all excel files, including .xlsm (2007+ versions). You can see how it works by browsing his code.
This is the guy's blog: http://lbeliarl.blogspot.com/2014/03/excel-removing-password-from-vba.html
Here's the file that does the work: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6sFi5sSqEKbLUIwUTVhY3lWZE0/edit
Pasted from a previous post from his blog:
For Excel 2007/2010 (.xlsm) files do following steps:
Create a new .xlsm file.
In the VBA part, set a simple password (for instance 'macro').
Save the file and exit.
Change file extention to '.zip', open it by any archiver program.
Find the file: 'vbaProject.bin' (in 'xl' folder).
Extract it from archive.
Open the file you just extracted with a hex editor.
Find and copy the value from parameter DPB (value in quotation mark), example:
DPB="282A84CBA1CBA1345FCCB154E20721DE77F7D2378D0EAC90427A22021A46E9CE6F17188A". (This value generated for 'macro' password. You can use this DPB value to skip steps 1-8)
Do steps 4-7 for file with unknown password (file you want to unlock).
Change DBP value in this file on value that you have copied in step 8.
If copied value is shorter than in encrypted file you should populate missing characters with 0 (zero). If value is longer - that is not a problem (paste it as is).
Save the 'vbaProject.bin' file and exit from hex editor.
Replace existing 'vbaProject.bin' file with modified one.
Change extention from '.zip' back to '.xlsm'
Now, open the excel file you need to see the VBA code in. The password for the VBA code
will simply be macro (as in the example I'm showing here).
New version, now you also have the GC=
try to replace both DPB and GC with those
DPB="DBD9775A4B774B77B4894C77DFE8FE6D2CCEB951E8045C2AB7CA507D8F3AC7E3A7F59012A2"
GC="BAB816BBF4BCF4BCF4"
password will be "test"
Open xls file with a hex editor.
Search for DPB
Replace DPB to DPx
Save file.
Open file in Excel.
Click "Yes" if you get any message box.
Set new password from VBA Project Properties.
Close and open again file, then type your new password to unprotect.
Check http://blog.getspool.com/396/best-vba-password-recovery-cracker-tool-remove/
If you deal with .xlsm file instead of .xls you can use the old method. I was trying to modify vbaProject.bin in .xlsm several times using DBP->DBx method by it didn't work, also changing value of DBP didn't. So I was very suprised that following worked :
1. Save .xlsm as .xls.
2. Use DBP->DBx method on .xls.
3. Unfortunately some erros may occur when using modified .xls file, I had to save .xls as .xlsx and add modules, then save as .xlsm.
I have a scenario and would like to see if anyone has any suggestions on how I should tackle it. Basically I have a directory full of files, document names consist of [Code]-[number]-[text]
CODE - A generic 3 letter code.
NUMBER - a number generally 4 - 5 digits in size.
TEXT - original document name (Before it was dumped).
CODE, NUMBER and TEXT are separated by a colon (-). Number always starts at the 5 character.
I would like to somehow scan that directory and extract the number from the filename, I would then like to compare that number to a field in a database (SQL query fairly straight forward, could also extract as raw text) If the number matches the number in the database I would like to separate those files.
If I need to clarify anything please ask. I wasn't sure if this site is appropriate for my query.
Open the root folder, click in the file explorer path (in open space off to the side so the whole path gets highlighted), type cmd and hit enter to open a command prompt from that folder location.
Type: dir /b /s > filelist.txt to get a list of all file names. You can exclude /s if you don't need/want to dig down into subfolders.
I'd paste that into excel, if you have 2013 you can just start typing the part you want to extract, after you type the full first line when you start typing the next line it will recognize the pattern and you can just hit enter to fill down.
Otherwise, use Data > Text to Columns and specify - as a delimiter.
Likewise you could just import the filelist, separate them in SQL using SUBSTRING() or similar. When you have your matching filenames you can just use some concatenation to build a COPY or MOVE .bat file, pretty easy in SQL or Excel.