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Excel VBA Open workbook, perform actions, save as, close

This question has been edited due to lengthy comments and updates from proposed answers.

As requested here is module 13;

Sub SaveInFormat()
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Workbooks.Application.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:="C:\Documents and Settings\jammil\Desktop\AutoFinance\ProjectControl\Data\" & Format(Date, "yyyymm") & "DB" & ".xlsx",   leFormat:=51
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub

Also there are issues with the errorhandling, I know I've gone wrong with it but I'm more interested in fixing the close function at the moment before I get into it. Here is the error handling code that needs some work

Sub test()

Dim wk As String, yr As String, fname As String, fpath As String
Dim owb As Workbook

wk = ComboBox1.Value
yr = ComboBox2.Value
fname = yr & "W" & wk
fpath = "C:\Documents and Settings\jammil\Desktop\AutoFinance\ProjectControl\Data"
owb = Application.Workbooks.Open(fpath & "\" & fname)
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:
ErrorHandler:
If MsgBox("This File Does Not Exist!", vbRetryCancel) = vbCancel Then Exit Sub Else Call Clear

'Do Some Stuff

Call Module13.SaveInFormat

owb.Close

this is your test code plus my changing of the file path and name

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JamesDev Avatar asked Oct 18 '12 09:10

JamesDev


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2 Answers

After discussion posting updated answer:

Option Explicit
Sub test()

    Dim wk As String, yr As String
    Dim fname As String, fpath As String
    Dim owb As Workbook

    With Application
        .DisplayAlerts = False
        .ScreenUpdating = False
        .EnableEvents = False
    End With

    wk = ComboBox1.Value
    yr = ComboBox2.Value
    fname = yr & "W" & wk
    fpath = "C:\Documents and Settings\jammil\Desktop\AutoFinance\ProjectControl\Data"

    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
    Set owb = Application.Workbooks.Open(fpath & "\" & fname)

    'Do Some Stuff

    With owb
        .SaveAs fpath & Format(Date, "yyyymm") & "DB" & ".xlsx", 51
        .Close
    End With

    With Application
        .DisplayAlerts = True
        .ScreenUpdating = True
        .EnableEvents = True
    End With

Exit Sub
ErrorHandler: If MsgBox("This File Does Not Exist!", vbRetryCancel) = vbCancel Then

Else: Call Clear

End Sub

Error Handling:

You could try something like this to catch a specific error:

    On Error Resume Next
    Set owb = Application.Workbooks.Open(fpath & "\" & fname)
    If Err.Number = 1004 Then
    GoTo FileNotFound
    Else
    End If

    ...
    Exit Sub
    FileNotFound: If MsgBox("This File Does Not Exist!", vbRetryCancel) = vbCancel Then

    Else: Call Clear
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Alistair Weir Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 23:10

Alistair Weir


I'll try and answer several different things, however my contribution may not cover all of your questions. Maybe several of us can take different chunks out of this. However, this info should be helpful for you. Here we go..

Opening A Seperate File:

ChDir "[Path here]"                          'get into the right folder here
Workbooks.Open Filename:= "[Path here]"      'include the filename in this path

'copy data into current workbook or whatever you want here

ActiveWindow.Close                          'closes out the file

Opening A File With Specified Date If It Exists:

I'm not sure how to search your directory to see if a file exists, but in my case I wouldn't bother to search for it, I'd just try to open it and put in some error checking so that if it doesn't exist then display this message or do xyz.

Some common error checking statements:

On Error Resume Next   'if error occurs continues on to the next line (ignores it)

ChDir "[Path here]"                         
Workbooks.Open Filename:= "[Path here]"      'try to open file here

Or (better option):

if one doesn't exist then bring up either a message box or dialogue box to say "the file does not exist, would you like to create a new one?

you would most likely want to use the GoTo ErrorHandler shown below to achieve this

On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:

ChDir "[Path here]"                         
Workbooks.Open Filename:= "[Path here]"      'try to open file here

ErrorHandler:
'Display error message or any code you want to run on error here

Much more info on Error handling here: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/errorhandling.htm


Also if you want to learn more or need to know more generally in VBA I would recommend Siddharth Rout's site, he has lots of tutorials and example code here: http://www.siddharthrout.com/vb-dot-net-and-excel/

Hope this helps!


Example on how to ensure error code doesn't run EVERYtime:

if you debug through the code without the Exit Sub BEFORE the error handler you'll soon realize the error handler will be run everytime regarldess of if there is an error or not. The link below the code example shows a previous answer to this question.

  Sub Macro

    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:

    ChDir "[Path here]"                         
    Workbooks.Open Filename:= "[Path here]"      'try to open file here

    Exit Sub      'Code will exit BEFORE ErrorHandler if everything goes smoothly
                  'Otherwise, on error, ErrorHandler will be run

    ErrorHandler:
    'Display error message or any code you want to run on error here

  End Sub

Also, look at this other question in you need more reference to how this works: goto block not working VBA


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Mike Kellogg Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 22:10

Mike Kellogg