I ran into a problem the other day with Activating an Open
workbook in Excel VB. I run this macro everyday, and it
has no problem on MY pc, but fails on most others. The
code is Workbooks("MyBook").Activate, where MyBook is the
workbook that contains the macro. It fails on other pc's
because the name MyBook is not fully qualified to
MyBook.xls. If I fully qualify it, it works on all
machines. Is there an XL setting somewhere that controls
whether the fully qualified name is required or not?

I believe it is the Windows setting that controls the behavior. In a Windows
Exlporer window:

Tools | Folder Options | View | Hide file extensions for known file types

--

Vasant



"sclark" wrote in message
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I ran into a problem the other day with Activating an Open
workbook in Excel VB. I run this macro everyday, and it
has no problem on MY pc, but fails on most others. The
code is Workbooks("MyBook").Activate, where MyBook is the
workbook that contains the macro. It fails on other pc's
because the name MyBook is not fully qualified to
MyBook.xls. If I fully qualify it, it works on all
machines. Is there an XL setting somewhere that controls
whether the fully qualified name is required or not?

-----Original Message-----
I believe it is the Windows setting that controls the
behavior. In a Windows
Exlporer window:

Tools | Folder Options | View | Hide file extensions for
known file types

--

Vasant



"sclark" wrote in
message
...
I ran into a problem the other day with Activating an
Open
workbook in Excel VB. I run this macro everyday, and it
has no problem on MY pc, but fails on most others. The
code is Workbooks("MyBook").Activate, where MyBook is
the
workbook that contains the macro. It fails on other
pc's
because the name MyBook is not fully qualified to
MyBook.xls. If I fully qualify it, it works on all
machines. Is there an XL setting somewhere that
controls
whether the fully qualified name is required or not?


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Thanks for the reply. I tried that and it didn't work.
Not sure if I have to reboot or not (I havent) but it
still fails. Funny thing is that it will OPEN workbooks
without being fully qualified, but it won't activate
them. My other computer does both...I'm certain there
must be a setting somewhere, and the one you suggested
seemed like a likely candidate. I will keep searching.

Steve

BTW, it waould be a lot easier to use:

ThisWorkbook.Activate

to activate the workbook containing the macro.

--

Vasant


"slcark" wrote in message
...

-----Original Message-----
I believe it is the Windows setting that controls the
behavior. In a Windows
Exlporer window:

Tools | Folder Options | View | Hide file extensions for
known file types

--

Vasant



"sclark" wrote in
message
...
I ran into a problem the other day with Activating an
Open
workbook in Excel VB. I run this macro everyday, and it
has no problem on MY pc, but fails on most others. The
code is Workbooks("MyBook").Activate, where MyBook is
the
workbook that contains the macro. It fails on other
pc's
because the name MyBook is not fully qualified to
MyBook.xls. If I fully qualify it, it works on all
machines. Is there an XL setting somewhere that
controls
whether the fully qualified name is required or not?


.
Thanks for the reply. I tried that and it didn't work.
Not sure if I have to reboot or not (I havent) but it
still fails. Funny thing is that it will OPEN workbooks
without being fully qualified, but it won't activate
them. My other computer does both...I'm certain there
must be a setting somewhere, and the one you suggested
seemed like a likely candidate. I will keep searching.

Steve

Thanks, I learn somethin new everyday with this stuff.
Never knew about the 'ThisWorkBook' b4.

-----Original Message-----
BTW, it waould be a lot easier to use:

ThisWorkbook.Activate

to activate the workbook containing the macro.

--

Vasant


"slcark" wrote in
message
...

-----Original Message-----
I believe it is the Windows setting that controls the
behavior. In a Windows
Exlporer window:

Tools | Folder Options | View | Hide file extensions
for
known file types

--

Vasant



"sclark" wrote in
message
...
I ran into a problem the other day with Activating an
Open
workbook in Excel VB. I run this macro everyday,
and it
has no problem on MY pc, but fails on most others.
The
code is Workbooks("MyBook").Activate, where MyBook is
the
workbook that contains the macro. It fails on other
pc's
because the name MyBook is not fully qualified to
MyBook.xls. If I fully qualify it, it works on all
machines. Is there an XL setting somewhere that
controls
whether the fully qualified name is required or not?


.
Thanks for the reply. I tried that and it didn't work.
Not sure if I have to reboot or not (I havent) but it
still fails. Funny thing is that it will OPEN workbooks
without being fully qualified, but it won't activate
them. My other computer does both...I'm certain there
must be a setting somewhere, and the one you suggested
seemed like a likely candidate. I will keep searching.

Steve


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"sclark" wrote in message
...
I learn somethin new everyday with this stuff.

Hey, me too! :-)

Without the full path, excel defaults to its own root directory.

--
Patrick Molloy
Microsoft Excel MVP
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"sclark" wrote in message
...
I ran into a problem the other day with Activating an Open
workbook in Excel VB. I run this macro everyday, and it
has no problem on MY pc, but fails on most others. The
code is Workbooks("MyBook").Activate, where MyBook is the
workbook that contains the macro. It fails on other pc's
because the name MyBook is not fully qualified to
MyBook.xls. If I fully qualify it, it works on all
machines. Is there an XL setting somewhere that controls
whether the fully qualified name is required or not?

What's weird about this, is the macro I'm having a problem
with opens starts with ONE workbook open (the one with the
macro in it), and it opens another which is in a
completely different path (root of C:). On MY pc at work,
it handles BOTH of these just fine without fully
qualifying the name. All other pc's I've tried it on
won't work. Another thing is that the OPEN works fine
without full qualification (obviously the path is
qualified, just not the extension) but the Activate is
where I have the problem. It is EASY to 'fix' (just add
the .xls or .wk3) to the book name on the Activate
command, but I just like to understand WHY that needs to
be done on one computer but not others.

Here is the code:

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

Workbooks.Open Filename:="C:\All_Sirs_Daily"
Workbooks("SIR Status v3.0.xls").Activate

All_Sirs_Daily is a .wk3 file (from lotus notes extract)
and Sir Status v3.0 is the one with the macro. That
Activate will fail if not fully qualified as shown above.
Subsequent Activates on All_Sirs_Daily will also fail
without full qualification.


Steve
-----Original Message-----
Without the full path, excel defaults to its own root
directory.

--
Patrick Molloy
Microsoft Excel MVP
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"sclark" wrote in
message
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I ran into a problem the other day with Activating an
Open
workbook in Excel VB. I run this macro everyday, and it
has no problem on MY pc, but fails on most others. The
code is Workbooks("MyBook").Activate, where MyBook is
the
workbook that contains the macro. It fails on other
pc's
because the name MyBook is not fully qualified to
MyBook.xls. If I fully qualify it, it works on all
machines. Is there an XL setting somewhere that
controls
whether the fully qualified name is required or not?


.

Hmmm. I would understand that if it was having trouble finding the actual path of the file. When I say fully qualify, I am not qualifying the path, just the file extension (xls). This one still stumps m