Probably because you don't have any existing workbooks that have exactly
that name. If you eventually have such duplicate named books, you will
probably have the problem.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Peter" wrote in message
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Tom Ogilvy wrote:
Private Sub cbEnd_Click()

Dim fname As String

Application.DisplayAlerts = False
fname = "Last end status"
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=fname,
ConflictResolution:=xlLocalSessionChanges
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Unload Me

End Sub


Thanks Tom, that's a bit more elegant than my workaround using KILL. Any
idea why the second worked with no issues or is it an "undocumented
feature"?

Peter