Thanks Dibben,

I've tried the VBA code, but not successful. Since I'm not familiar with
using VBA code or writing macro, can you teach me how to do it??

I have created a shared electronic bank book namely 'HSBC.xls' in J drive
and when I save this file, I would like to make a backup copy in C drive
namely 'Backup HSBC', but I don't know exactly how to write VBA code.

Should I use the macro function or the Visual Basic Editor under Tools??
Please teach me how to write the macro or VBA code!!

I've tried the following as suggested but won't work:

Sub HSBC (ByValSaveASUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean)
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
ActiveWorkbook.SaveCopyAs "C:\Backup HSBC.xls" & ActiveWorkbook.Name
ActiveWorkbook.Save
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub

What have I done wrong?? please advice!!

MCC

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Only through VBA code which makes a backup copy of the file in another folder of
your choice when saved.

Private Sub Workbook_BeforeSave(ByVal _
SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean)
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
ActiveWorkbook.SaveCopyAs Filename:="C:\Gordstuff\" & _
ActiveWorkbook.Name
ActiveWorkbook.Save
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub

On the other hand, why don't you just regularly make a backup of the folder?

You should be doing that with all your data files and folders as a routine.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:59:00 -0800, MCC Wong <MCC
wrote:

Is is possible to automatically create a backup file once we update an excel
file in a separate folder from the folder with the original excel file. The
reason is that we are afraid that someone might delete the folder
accidentally and lost all the both the original file and the backup file.

We are using Microsoft Excel 2003