Export As A Fixed Format Excel 2007 - vba

Question

I have been assigned the task of developing a excel document that whole office will use. The user will click a button and the macro will export the file as a PDF to a shared folder. I wrote this code and tested this code using excel 2010. People that have excel 2007 where getting an error message saying "Run Time Error 1004 Document not saved. This document may be open, or an error may have been encountered when saving." I looked into the problem a little bit and found that excel 2007 needed an add-in update, so I installed it on their computers. I also checked to see if they have adobe on their computers and they do. They are still having the problem and I am unsure of what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Here is my code
' Define all variables
Dim strFileName As String
Dim folder As String
Dim member As Integer
Dim member_count As Integer
Dim member_name As String
Dim show As Variant
Dim MyTime As String
'Save as new file
Worksheets("Input data").Visible = True
folder = Sheets("Input data").Range("location").Value
MyTime = Time
Sheets("Input data").Select
Range("G2").Value = MyTime
strFileName = folder & "Material Request - " & Sheets("Input data").Range("name").Value & "_" & Sheets("Input data").Range("date").Value & " " & Sheets("Input data").Range("time").Value & ".pdf"
Sheets("Material Request").Select
ActiveSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat Type:=xlTypePDF, Filename:=strFileName 'OpenAfterPublish:=True`

Answer 1

You should start with changing the code to remove .Select & .ActiveSheet instances.
Dim oWS as Worksheet
Set oWS = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Input data")
' Worksheets("Input data").Visible = True
folder = oWS.Range("location").Value
If Right(folder,1) <> Application.PathSeparator Then folder = folder & Application.PathSeparator
MyTime = Time
' Sheets("Input data").Select
oWS.Range("G2").Value = MyTime
strFileName = folder & "Material Request - " & oWS.Range("name").Value & "_" & oWS.Range("date").Value & " " & oWS.Range("time").Value & ".pdf"
Debug.Print "strFileName: " & strFileName
'Sheets("Material Request").Select
oWS.ExportAsFixedFormat Type:=xlTypePDF, Filename:=strFileName 'OpenAfterPublish:=True`
Set oWS = Nothing
Refer to this MSDN Worksheet.ExportAsFixedFormat Method, you may need fill in more parameters depending on properties of the Worksheet "Input Data".
I have added some checks and refer to Immediate window to check value of strFileName in 2007.

Answer 2

I had a similiar problem (Error 1004 when attempting export). After an hour of pulling my hair out, here was the source of my problem.
I was passing a cell value as part of generating the filename. I was doing this in the format of
fileName:= ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\" & CStr(Workbooks.Cells(i,j).Value) & ".pdf"
The text in the cell itself was formatted to be in two rows (i.e. "top row text" + (Alt+K) + "bottom row text"). While the string looks normal in Debug.print, MsgBox, or value previews, I am thinking that there is a hidden character which encodes the new line for the cell. I believe this hidden character causes the error when passed as part of the fileName argument. I'm guessing Excel doesn't pick it up but the OS's file name system does.
In any case, this fixed the issue for me.