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What is xlNormal?
I was looking for further clarification as to what saving an excel as
filetype:= xlNormal means. I have been unable to find a definition that goes beyond stating it is a normal workbook or that it's a constant equivalent to -4143. What is a "normal workbook" exactly? I would like to have a better understanding of what this means before I go ahead and use it. The reason I ask is because I am working on updating some macros to save a spreadsheet in a *.xls format (97-2003). This needs to run for users in Office 2003 and 2007. I had been creating an if statement to check application.version and running the appropriate syntax to save as *.xls until I accidentily stumbled across another workbook that used filetype:=xlNormal which runs in both versions and in both cases creates *.xls. Why does this work? Thank you in advance for your assistance. |
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What is xlNormal?
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http://www.rondebruin.nl/saveas.htm -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm "RyanAtWork" wrote in message ... I was looking for further clarification as to what saving an excel as filetype:= xlNormal means. I have been unable to find a definition that goes beyond stating it is a normal workbook or that it's a constant equivalent to -4143. What is a "normal workbook" exactly? I would like to have a better understanding of what this means before I go ahead and use it. The reason I ask is because I am working on updating some macros to save a spreadsheet in a *.xls format (97-2003). This needs to run for users in Office 2003 and 2007. I had been creating an if statement to check application.version and running the appropriate syntax to save as *.xls until I accidentily stumbled across another workbook that used filetype:=xlNormal which runs in both versions and in both cases creates *.xls. Why does this work? Thank you in advance for your assistance. |
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What is xlNormal?
xlNormal is a normal XL workbook. Whatever version you are running is the
normal xlFile type. Other options include xlCSV which save the file as a CSV file. xlHtml is a web page... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "RyanAtWork" wrote: I was looking for further clarification as to what saving an excel as filetype:= xlNormal means. I have been unable to find a definition that goes beyond stating it is a normal workbook or that it's a constant equivalent to -4143. What is a "normal workbook" exactly? I would like to have a better understanding of what this means before I go ahead and use it. The reason I ask is because I am working on updating some macros to save a spreadsheet in a *.xls format (97-2003). This needs to run for users in Office 2003 and 2007. I had been creating an if statement to check application.version and running the appropriate syntax to save as *.xls until I accidentily stumbled across another workbook that used filetype:=xlNormal which runs in both versions and in both cases creates *.xls. Why does this work? Thank you in advance for your assistance. |
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What is xlNormal?
Thanks for posting that Ron. I have not done much in XL2007 and I missed the
details on the different file types. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Ron de Bruin" wrote: See http://www.rondebruin.nl/saveas.htm -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm "RyanAtWork" wrote in message ... I was looking for further clarification as to what saving an excel as filetype:= xlNormal means. I have been unable to find a definition that goes beyond stating it is a normal workbook or that it's a constant equivalent to -4143. What is a "normal workbook" exactly? I would like to have a better understanding of what this means before I go ahead and use it. The reason I ask is because I am working on updating some macros to save a spreadsheet in a *.xls format (97-2003). This needs to run for users in Office 2003 and 2007. I had been creating an if statement to check application.version and running the appropriate syntax to save as *.xls until I accidentily stumbled across another workbook that used filetype:=xlNormal which runs in both versions and in both cases creates *.xls. Why does this work? Thank you in advance for your assistance. . |
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What is xlNormal?
Thank you for your quick response. Would I be correct to say that xlNormal is
just a standard filetype for excel that when opened will be adjusted to the version and that is why a 2007 file saved as xlNormal opens and runs fine in 2003? "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: xlNormal is a normal XL workbook. Whatever version you are running is the normal xlFile type. Other options include xlCSV which save the file as a CSV file. xlHtml is a web page... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "RyanAtWork" wrote: I was looking for further clarification as to what saving an excel as filetype:= xlNormal means. I have been unable to find a definition that goes beyond stating it is a normal workbook or that it's a constant equivalent to -4143. What is a "normal workbook" exactly? I would like to have a better understanding of what this means before I go ahead and use it. The reason I ask is because I am working on updating some macros to save a spreadsheet in a *.xls format (97-2003). This needs to run for users in Office 2003 and 2007. I had been creating an if statement to check application.version and running the appropriate syntax to save as *.xls until I accidentily stumbled across another workbook that used filetype:=xlNormal which runs in both versions and in both cases creates *.xls. Why does this work? Thank you in advance for your assistance. |
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