good bet you are using Late Binding. As such, the constant xlCSV would have
a value of zero when you want to pass a value of

6. So do that explicitly

oExcelApp.activeworkbook.SaveAs _
filename:="L:\aTest\Sent\Trades_" & _
Format(date, "yyyy-mm-dd"), _
FileFormat:=6, _
CreateBackup:=False

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Maury Markowitz" wrote in
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I'm trying to save a backup copy of a macro-created workbook as a CSV. The
workbook has a single sheet. This line fails with a 1004 error:

oExcelApp.activeworkbook.SaveAs filename:="L:\aTest\Sent\Trades_" &
Format(date, "yyyy-mm-dd"), FileFormat:=xlCSV, CreateBackup:=False

Anyone have any ideas? When I try a SaveAs manually I get a dialog -- if
this is the problem, how can I avoid this?

Maury