Can't Trap No or Cancel in "Replace Existing" Dialog Box (116327)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q116327 SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel, if you use the SaveAs method of the Workbook object to
save a file, and you save the file with the same name and location as an
existing file, you cannot determine whether the No or the Cancel button is
chosen in the "Replace Existing" dialog box that appears when you save the
file.
CAUSE
When you use the SaveAs method of the Workbook object to save a file, and
the file already exists, both the No and the Cancel button in the "Replace
Existing" dialog box cause the following error message to appear:
Run-time error '1004':
SaveAs method of Workbook class failed
Because of this behavior, you cannot trap this error, and you cannot
determine in your macro whether the Cancel button was chosen, or the No
button was chosen.
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To work around this behavior, you can use the Dir function to determine
whether the file already exists, and then use the MsgBox function to trap
the response to either replace the existing file, or not. The following
macro is an example of this method.
Sub Save_File()
' Dimension variables
Dim FileToSave, ExistFile, Msg As String
Msg = "File already exists. Save on top of existing file?"
' Define name and directory to save active workbook to
FileToSave = "C:\TEST.XLS"
' Check for existing file
ExistFile = Dir(FileToSave)
If ExistFile <> "" Then
If MsgBox(Msg, vbExclamation + vbOKCancel) = vbOK Then
' OK chosen, replace following line with desired code
MsgBox "Save over existing file"
Else
' Cancel chosen, replace following line with desired code
MsgBox "Cancel save"
End If
' If file does not exist, save file
Else
ThisWorkbook.SaveAs ("C:\TEST.XLS")
End If
End Sub
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. REFERENCES
For more information about the Dir function, click the Index tab in
Microsoft Visual Basic Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Dir function"
topic.
For more information about the SaveAs method, click the Index tab in
Microsoft Visual Basic Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "SaveAs method"
topic.
"Microsoft Excel Visual Basic User's Reference" Chapter 9, "Handling
Errors and Error Values"
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 10/11/2006 |
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Keywords: | kbbug kberrmsg kbpending kbProgramming KB116327 |
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