Hi Pat

I thought I read in an earlier thread that if you use "DoEvents" it may
allow the system to complete all it's tasks before returning processing to
Excel. Perhaps you need the system to finish the save to your FTP site
before Excel starts it's save. Be sure to read the help file on "DoEvents"
before using it, it can yeild some unpredictable results.

Another thought is to try using "Application.Wait(Now + TimeValue("0:00:2"))
" for a few seconds at the end of the before save event, it may allow the
system to process unfinished tasks through multitasking. Using
Application.Wait has helped me quite a few times in the past.

I hope this helps,
Regards, Rocky McKinley

"Pat Beck" wrote in message
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Excel 2002
WindowsXP

I have a macro in a module that works great when ran directly. But when I
run it from ThisWorkbook on a BeforeSave event it crashes Excel
constantly.
Basically, the macro saves to an FTP site as well as the hard drive when
the
user saves. I can have the user hit a macro button to run my
saveFTP/saveHardDrive macro directly and everything is great, but I'd like
to launch this action upon a normal save as well. But, like I said,
calling
it up in BeforeSave crashes Excel.

I've had other projects become unstable when I called a macro from within
ThisWorkbook. So, I must be doing something consistently wrong. I shy away
from adding any code at all to ThisWorkbook because of my experiences.
Maybe
I'm doing something wrong that can easily be corrected?

Does anyone have ideas or do I need to furnish the exact code?

Thanks,
Pat Beck