Excel VBA Automation Error: The object invoked has disconnected from its clients

Question

I know I've seen references to this issue before, but I have tried several of the suggestions and I am still getting the error. I have a workbook that assembles data from another book and generates a report. I then want to make a new workbook, copy the report information into the new book, save the new book and close it, and then move on to the next report. It should do this around 10 times. In the part of my code where I am copying and pasting the sheets, I am getting an error

Error -2147417848 Automation error The object invoked has disconnected from its clients

I have checked other postings about this error, and tried the suggested solutions without any results. the interesting thing is that sometimes it will make it through 5 cycles of code before breaking, sometimes only 2. The only consistency is that it always breaks in the same place

fromBook.Sheets("Report").Copy Before:=newBook.Sheets("Sheet1")

I have option Explicit at the top of the module, and I have checked to make sure that there are not any globals inside of the sub it is breaking in. That being said, It's entirely possible I have overlooked something. I also put a "timer" in at one point to make sure that the excel sheets were not walking over each other.

I could really use the help!

Here is my sub's code:

Sub CreateAndSave(ByRef Reg As Integer, ByVal j As Integer)

        Dim fromBook As Workbook
        Dim fromSheet As Worksheet
        Dim newBook As Workbook
        Dim fileExists As Boolean
        Dim i As Integer
        Dim Holder As Integer


        Application.ScreenUpdating = False
        Application.DisplayAlerts = False

            Set fromBook = Application.Workbooks("Region_Audit_Report")
            Set newBook = Workbooks.Add

           With newBook
            .SaveAs Filename:="G:\DataTeam\ExcelDev\Audit Report\Region Workbooks\Region" & Reg & " " & Month(Date) & "-" & Day(Date) & "-" & Year(Date) & ".xlsx" _
            , FileFormat:=xlOpenXMLWorkbook
           End With

        Set newBook = Application.Workbooks("Region" & Reg & " " & Month(Date) & "-" & Day(Date) & "-" & Year(Date) & ".xlsx")

        fromBook.Sheets("Report").Copy Before:=newBook.Sheets("Sheet1")
        fromBook.Sheets("MonthData").Copy After:=newBook.Sheets("Report")

        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("A1") = "Month"
        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("B1") = "Store#"
        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("C1") = "District"
        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("D1") = "Region"
        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("E1") = "Due Date"
        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("F1") = "Comp Date"
        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("G1") = "# of Errors"
        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("H1") = "Late?"
        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("I1") = "Complete?"

        newBook.Sheets("MonthData").Range("A1:I1").Interior.ColorIndex = 43


            newBook.Save

            newBook.Close


            Application.DisplayAlerts = True

    End Sub

Answer 1

You must have used the object, released it ("disconnect"), and used it again. Release object only after you're finished with it, or when calling Form_Closing.