I am trying (and failing) to write a macro in Excel that would:
1. Open a Database that has a password
2. Run a savedexport
So far I have the following, but it still prompts for the password, and gives an error:
>"Run-time error '31599':
>The specified name " cannot be set due to one of the following reasons:
>* The specified name is not unique.
>* The specified name is blank.
>* The specified name does not follow [Name of My Database] object-naming rules.
MACRO
Sub RunSavedExport()
'Open DB and run procedure
Set objAccess = CreateObject("Access.Application")
If Not objAccess Is Nothing Then
With objAccess
.OpenCurrentDatabase "O:\2016\DatabaseName.accdb", False, "MS Access;PWD=XXXX"
.DoCmd.SetWarnings False
.DoCmd.RunSavedImportExport "SavedExportName"
.DoCmd.SetWarnings True
End With
End If
'Close Access
If Not objAccess Is Nothing Then
With objAccess
.CloseCurrentDatabase
.Quit
End With
End If
End Sub
There is a distinct possibility that the error is based on remnants of the old 8-character name system, if you possibly at some time have renamed/altered your saved export.
Try renaming your saved export now to a name that begins with a different combination of initial characters than what you've used before. (i.e. not from SavedExportName to SavedExportNameNEW, but from SavedExportName to for instance NewSavedExportName).
That did the trick for me!
In fact, using MS VBA 7.1 in MS Access 2007-2013, I have, with success, completely omitted most of the code that you're using, and this simple line does it all:
DoCmd.RunSavedImportExport ("NameOfSavedExport")
(Not sure if the parenthesis are needed, but it Works!)
(That being said - I'm running it from within the DB, so you might need most of Your original code after all...)
Hope this helps!
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So I have this problem with my app. It is supposed to take user inputs and archive them in Excel files. All of that would work just fine, if I didn't need to access said Excel files as a special user due to the company's safety restrictions.
I have a working piece of code that opens said restricted files just fine through creating a new process (it is pretty much the same as the one here).
I use the code as such:
Sub RunAsUser_Main()
Dim ExeCommand As String
ExeCommand = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\EXCEL.EXE \\192.168.88.3\share\public\Workbook.xlsm"
RunAsUser "username", "password", "domain", ExeCommand, "C:\Windows"
'-------------------- OPEN WORKBOOK --------------------
Dim ret As Integer
Dim ExcelApp As Object
Dim WorkbookPath As String
Dim MyWorkbook As Object
On Error Resume Next
Set ExcelApp = GetObject("Excel.Application").Application
If ExcelApp Is Nothing Then
ret = MsgBox("error!", vbCritical + vbOKOnly, title)
Exit Sub
End If
...
All goes good right until the GetObject statement. The new process starts, Excel opens the workbook as it should and I have verified that it is run by the special user.
After this though, I am unable to reference the running ExcelApp object. It just returns nothing.
What is wrong with this code? I have very little experience with creation and management of processes, so I might be failing to see the obvious.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: After some more trying, I believe that there is no way to reference the workbook using standard commands (GetObject etc.). I will need some special code to make this work, and have no idea for where to look for it. Any advice on this?
I've also used the code from this thread that is supposed to list all current instances of excel. It does list the ones running under my current user, but does't register the one under my special user, same as with my previous attempts.
I am trying to run an Excel VBA subroutine to save a Word document.
Language version: Word/Excel version 16.41
Operating system: Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6
I tried: (https://www.reddit.com/r/vba/comments/ivwxlw/trouble_with_path_when_saving_basic_word_document/)
(https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/excel-vba-macro-to-save-as-basic-word-document/df78bf58-ec21-4502-abfe-bc3df1fca7ae)
I am starting from scratch on a different computer and operating system. I am now using Mac OS Majave 10.14.6 and Word/Excel version 16.41. I was able to open tools-references-and select the Word library, but now References is unhighlighted and unclickable. (it was briefly before also)
I encounter:
Run time error -2146959355 (80080005) Automation Error.
The line that needs debugging:
Set wdApp = New Word.Application
Option Explicit
Sub CreateBasicWordReportEarlyBinding()
Dim wdApp As Word.Application
Set wdApp = New Word.Application
With wdApp
.Visible = True
.Activate
.Documents.Add
With .Selection
.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter
.BoldRun
.Font.Size = 18
.TypeText "Best Movies Ever"
.BoldRun
.Font.Size = 12
.TypeText vbNewLine
.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphLeft
.TypeParagraph
End With
Range("A2", Range("A2").End(xlDown).End(xlToRight)).Copy
.Selection.Paste
.ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 Environ("UserProfile") & "\Desktop\MovieReport.docx"
.ActiveDocument.Close
.Quit
End With
Set wdApp = Nothing
End Sub
There have been problems using COM Automation (which is what New Word.Application", CreateObject etc are doing) on the Mac versions of Office for some years now. You may have seen similar questions elsewhere.
The trouble is that not everyone seems to experience these problems, which suggests that they could result from a configuration issue. The usual suspect would be "something to do with Mac OS Sandboxing". However, I have never seen a support document by anyone, including Microsoft, that tells you how to fix that. I have done clean installs of Office on clean installs of Mac OS and encountered and reported the problems, and that's when I think the software author should really investigate the problem and provide fix or a workaround.
Here, (same Office version, but Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6) what I find is that...
The problems are a bit different depending on which application you are running or trying to automate.
In Excel, trying to use an early-bound object of type Word.Application always fails. So you cannot use
Dim wdApp As New Word.Document
or
Dim myApp As Word.Document
Set myApp = New Word.Document
(It doesn't matter whether or not you have defined the correct reference in VBE Tools->References. If you don't, you'll see see a compile-time error anyway and VBA won't actually run the code).
So you need
Dim wdApp As Object
and to use CreateObject (if Word is not already running or when you you need a new instance of Word, on Windows at least) or GetObject (when you want to connect to a/the existing instance of Word.
However, here I find that CreateObject only works sometimes, and I haven't been able to work out why. It always starts Word if it hasn't started, but sometimes it waits for Word to start and returns a reference to the Word object and sometimes it does not. Tests are not completely conclusive, but it actually looks as if it works a maximum of "every other time you call it in an Excel session", It looks to me as if Excel retains some state information that it should not and thinks it "knows" that WOrd has started when in fact it hasn't.
In contrast, GetObject seems to work OK. Normally it returns an error if Word has not started, but returns a reference to the Word object if it has. So I tried to use something like this
Dim wdApp As Object
On Error Resume Next
Set wdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Err.Clear
If wdApp Is Nothing Then
Set wdApp = GetObject(,"Word.Application")
End If
But then I still sometimes get error 429 ActiveX component can't create object in the GetObject line - in those cases it looks as if CreateObject isn't waiting for Word to start.
So I looked at the possibility of Starting Word without using COM. There are a few ways you could try to do that on Mac, but the simplest is to use the MacScript function to run a bit of AppleScript to do it. It's simplest because all the code can be in the VBA Sub/Function - you don't need any external files.
MacScript is actually deprecated because of problems with Mac OS sandboxing. You are really supposed to use AppleScriptTask instead. But MacScript currently seems to do the job, except that it always raises a VBA error (which IMO it should not), so we have to mess around with VBA error trapping.
Here, the following code always works. For now.
Dim theApp As Object
On Error Resume Next
MacScript "tell application id ""com.microsoft.Word"" to activate"
Err.Clear
'On Error Goto problem ' you need to set this up
Set theApp = GetObject(,"Word.Application")
' just be careful
If theApp Is Nothing Then
Debug.Print "theApp Is Nothing"
Else
Debug.Print TypeName(theApp)
' get on with what you need to do
End If
The other thing I tried quite hard to do was see if I could then take advantage of early binding (for Intellisense etc.) by adding this code at the appropriate points:
Dim myApp As Word.Application
Set myApp = theApp
'or
Set myApp = theApp.Application
But that never worked. So I seem to be stuck with late binding.
if you find that you cannot use MacScript, you can use AppleScriptTask. At its simplest you put a text file called myStartWordScript.scpt in a folder in the user's "Library", here
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.microsoft.Excel
I used a script like this:
on myStartWord(dummy as text)
tell application id "com.microsoft.Word"
activate
end tell
return "Word has started"
end myStartWord
Then you can ditch some of that error heandling stuff and use VBA code like this:
Dim theApp As Object
Debug.Print AppleScriptTask("myStartWordScript","myStartWord","")
'On Error Goto problem ' you need to set this up
Set theApp = GetObject(,"Word.Application")
' just be careful
If theApp Is Nothing Then
Debug.Print "theApp Is Nothing"
Else
Debug.Print TypeName(theApp)
' get on with what you need to do
End If
See freeflow's comment, which should be posted as answer. In VBE, pick Tools > References > Microsoft Word 16.0 Object Library.
There's 2 ways you can automate word from Excel:
Early Binding: Add a reference to the microsoft word object library.
Late Binding: declare your variables as objects.
In your case I would use early binding to have access to intellisense.enter image description here
To find the proper syntax for saving to a Mac OS X folder :
open a file
record a macro
save the file (choose your folder)
stop the recording
edit the macro
see how Word translated it in VisualBasic
example with Word 16 (2019):
ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:= _
"/Users/myusername/anyfolder/nameofthefile" & DocNum & ".txt" _
, FileFormat:=wdFormatText, LockComments:=False, Password:="", _
AddToRecentFiles:=True, WritePassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, _
EmbedTrueTypeFonts:=False, SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData _
:=False, SaveAsAOCELetter:=False, Encoding:=65001, InsertLineBreaks:= _
False, AllowSubstitutions:=False, LineEnding:=wdCROnly
This is my first time using such forum.
I have exactly the same question as here:
How to release an object and clear memory in VBA
In this thread, the question was unfortunately not solved...
With Excel VBA I connect to another program (namely Aspen EDR). For that purpose I have an according Add-In installed. To access Aspen EDR I need to add an object. After I'm done I want to release the object to save some memory. First thing I tried is this:
Dim ObjEDR As BJACApp
Dim Path As String
Path = 'assume this is the correct path to the file i want to open
Set ObjEDR = New BJACApp ' Create the BJAC object
If Not ObjEDR.FileOpen(Path) Then
MsgBox "Can't open file!"
End If
'...
Set ObjEDR = Nothing
After I set the object nothing, Excel does not release the memory (as I can see in my task manager). Of course after a few hundred iterations (I have to open a lot of these files) I get an error message, that Excel is out of memory. I read a few threads and apparently nothing only deletes some kind of reference to the object but not the object itself, so I tried adding fileclose
'...
ObjEDR.FileClose
Set ObjEDR = Nothing
When executing the FileClose I can see that a little memory is released (0.5 of 3MB) but still there is a lot of memory accumulating.
Also when not using the "Now" it is not working and I get "runtime error'424': Object required" when executing Set ObjEDR = BJACApp
I also read about "pointers" that might cause the staying memory increase, but how can I find and clear/delete them?
Does anyone has an idea?
I would really appreciate it!
If .Quit (or the object's equivalent) and setting the object to Nothing is not working for you, then you could try relying on VBA's garbage collector to do the job.
Essentially what this means is that you would need to split the sub in two, have the main sub, and within that sub call the sub that will open and close your object. Hopefully, upon the second sub exiting, VBA will clean up those objects.
Sub Main()
Dim filePath As String
For Each [..] In [..] ' Or use a Do...Loop
filePath = 'assume this is the correct path to the file i want to open
openObj filePath 'call the sub below
Next [..]
End Sub
Sub openObj(ByVal Path As String)
Dim ObjEDR As BJACApp
Set ObjEDR = New BJACApp ' Create the BJAC object
If Not ObjEDR.FileOpen(Path) Then
MsgBox "Can't open file!"
End If
[...] 'your code to perform the needed actions with your obj
ObjEDR.FileClose
Set ObjEDR = Nothing
End Sub
I don't know anything about this object, but you should also try .Quit and .Close
Another method is to not create a new object for each path. Place the Set ObjEDR on the outside of your loop, and utilize the same object every time you open the new file.
Ok, to those who are interested:
The support of Aspen Tech told me that
ObjEDR.dispose()
should work, but just for versions above V8.4.
So this did not solved my problem and I built a workaround using MATLAB which opens and closes Excel after each run. So I loose time opening and closing the Excel file, but the memory of excel is not increasing until it stops working.
I have seen several questions relating to Object variable not set when using Activeworkbook, but none for my particular scenario. I use some code in workbook_open that tests a condition to decide if the user should be shown a form
If Len(ActiveWorkbook.Names("DCStype_Selected").RefersToRange.Value) = 0 Then
This works fine for most users 99% of the time. However some users have reported error 91 - Object Variable or with block variable not set, and it is on the activeworkbook line.
I believe I have tracked the scenario where this happens and it is always for users who do not have my excel workbook in a trusted location, and so are prompted to enable macros and this error occurs when they click the "enable" button.
Once I have talked them through setting a folder as a trusted location, and moving the workbook to that folder, this issue does not occur.
Could anyone tell me a more defensive way to code my line, so that it works regardless of a users security settings?
Could some one explain why this error only occurs in this specific scenario?
I would set ActiveWorkbook.Names("DCStype_Selected").RefersToRange.Value as a variable and on error
either set a message box to tell them to move the file to a trusted folder
or set the variable to 0 to avert further damage and debug mode
Sub ert()
On Error GoTo Err
... 'your code
If False Then
Err:
... 'MsgBox or setting the var to 0
End If
End Sub
A little late to the party but I had the exact same problem... eventually got around it like this:
Dim wBook As Workbook
Do While wBook Is Nothing
Set wBook = ActiveWorkbook
DoEvents
' Prob. put a counter in here to prevent infinite looping...
Loop
Say I have some VBA code in Access that uses excel for whatever reason. Sometimes I have trouble closing the file properly.
The code (I think) should look somewhat like this:
WBO.Close savechanges:=True
Set WBO = Nothing
XLO.Application.Quit
Set XLO = Nothing
rs.Close
db.Close
Here XLO is an excel object, WBO is a workbook object, rs is a DAO recordset and db is a DAO database. Even though the physical excel file closes there's still an "EXCEL.EXE" process occurring on my system, which stops me from running my program twice in a row. Does anyone know why this happens?
EDIT
I took out the rs.Close and then db.Close lines since I decided to manually export the data I was using from Access to Excel (there's too many rows and columns to copy each cell over efficiently). However, this didn't change the problem at hand.
Thank you,
Jesse Smothermon
There isn't an actual Excel object. Application is the top-level object but that Application object has an Application property which actually points to "the creator of the specified object". So trying to quit XLO.Application won't do what you think it should.
Presuming that XLO is of type Excel.Application then try just XLO.Quit instead of XLO.Application.Quit
Why not just:
application.displayalerts = false
WBO.save (or saveas whatever it matters)
WBO.close
set WBO = nothing
I don't see a memory problem with that...
Refer to this answer.
It worked for me.
Dim sKill As String
sKill = "TASKKILL /F /IM msaccess.exe"
Shell sKill, vbHide
If that works, mark the answer in the link with a ^, not mine.