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November 21st, 2003, 10:55 AM
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Path for a template in VBA
Hi,
I am new to this group and have a problem that I can´t fix in any way at the moment. I start a template in a folder placed somewhere on the computer. After some VBA coding done with it, it will be saved as normal workbook. How is it possible to know the path to the template in VBA, it is easy with an workbook - ActiveWorkbook.Path, but that is not working with templates
Hope for some help in this issue.
Thanks in advance
Piblon
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November 21st, 2003, 11:17 AM
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Unless it is actual the .XLT file you have open for editing, the template doesn't have a path, because it hasn't been saved. It's exactly the same situation as when you open Excel, and have Book1 available - there is no saved file to have a path to.
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November 21st, 2003, 11:24 AM
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It is a xlt-file. then I will have to make the "Template" as a xls-file (read-only) as a possible solution.
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November 21st, 2003, 11:38 AM
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Why do you want to know the path to the XLT file in the first place? What are you trying to do?
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November 26th, 2003, 10:18 AM
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Well, im doing a kind of production reporting programme.
Each month ýou start the template, answer a couple of questions and then the template will save into a normal workbook with a filename depending on the answers from the questions.
This is a bit of the code so you know what I mean
docName = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(fileName, "Excel Workbook (*.xls), *.xls", , "Save Stop Report")
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs docName, xlWorkbookNormal
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quote:Originally posted by chrislepingwell
Why do you want to know the path to the XLT file in the first place? What are you trying to do?
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November 26th, 2003, 10:52 AM
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OK, if that's what you are doing, I don't think you actually need the template's path. What you can do, if you want, is to set
, and this will use the last directory used as a starting point. Alternatively, just set a default save location in code, preferably not the same directory as the template - you don't want users breaking things :)
BTW, bear in mind that users can cancel out of the dialog, returning "false", so you must trap that before attempting the save.
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November 27th, 2003, 01:27 AM
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Thanx, I will try it out.
I know that cancel = False and working on trapping that issue as well.
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quote:Originally posted by chrislepingwell
OK, if that's what you are doing, I don't think you actually need the template's path. What you can do, if you want, is to set
, and this will use the last directory used as a starting point. Alternatively, just set a default save location in code, preferably not the same directory as the template - you don't want users breaking things :)
BTW, bear in mind that users can cancel out of the dialog, returning "false", so you must trap that before attempting the save.
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