Can anyone please advise me about the correct operation of SaveCopyAs.
I am using it as follows:

MsgBox Application.DisplayAlerts
MsgBox ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\_new\" & ActiveWorkbook.Name
ActiveWorkbook.SaveCopyAs ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\_new\" &
ActiveWorkbook.Name

So DisplayAlerts is True, yet I get no warning when the SaveCopyAs
overwrites the existing (pre-saved) file.

Is this by design, or am I missing something here. Coding in a
FileExists check is no problem, but I would have thought that ANY save
operation would give an overwrite warning by default.

Regards,

Mark

If displayalerts is true, then you should get a warning/prompt if you want
to overwrite the file.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

Mark Worthington wrote in message
om...
Can anyone please advise me about the correct operation of SaveCopyAs.
I am using it as follows:

MsgBox Application.DisplayAlerts
MsgBox ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\_new\" & ActiveWorkbook.Name
ActiveWorkbook.SaveCopyAs ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\_new\" &
ActiveWorkbook.Name

So DisplayAlerts is True, yet I get no warning when the SaveCopyAs
overwrites the existing (pre-saved) file.

Is this by design, or am I missing something here. Coding in a
FileExists check is no problem, but I would have thought that ANY save
operation would give an overwrite warning by default.

Regards,

Mark

Mark,

does the _new directory exist before you issue this command?

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HTH

Bob Phillips
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"Mark Worthington" wrote in message
om...
Can anyone please advise me about the correct operation of SaveCopyAs.
I am using it as follows:

MsgBox Application.DisplayAlerts
MsgBox ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\_new\" & ActiveWorkbook.Name
ActiveWorkbook.SaveCopyAs ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\_new\" &
ActiveWorkbook.Name

So DisplayAlerts is True, yet I get no warning when the SaveCopyAs
overwrites the existing (pre-saved) file.

Is this by design, or am I missing something here. Coding in a
FileExists check is no problem, but I would have thought that ANY save
operation would give an overwrite warning by default.

Regards,

Mark

Sorry, I misread your post (saw SaveAs, rather than SaveCopyAs) - SaveCopyAs
does not give a warning, so you will need to check it yourself. Since it is
designed to be used to create a backup, I assume the philosophy is that the
default behavior would be that there is a previous backup that should be
overwritten.


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


Tom Ogilvy wrote in message
...
If displayalerts is true, then you should get a warning/prompt if you want
to overwrite the file.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

Mark Worthington wrote in message
om...
Can anyone please advise me about the correct operation of SaveCopyAs.
I am using it as follows:

MsgBox Application.DisplayAlerts
MsgBox ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\_new\" & ActiveWorkbook.Name
ActiveWorkbook.SaveCopyAs ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\_new\" &
ActiveWorkbook.Name

So DisplayAlerts is True, yet I get no warning when the SaveCopyAs
overwrites the existing (pre-saved) file.

Is this by design, or am I missing something here. Coding in a
FileExists check is no problem, but I would have thought that ANY save
operation would give an overwrite warning by default.

Regards,

Mark

Tom,

Yes, I guessed the same. Actually, I thought of the designers saying
"what would be a really dumb thing to do, such that its behaviour will
be the opposite to its siblings (Save & SaveAs)" ...!

Oh well, one gets used to unusual Excel characteristics. It is also
strange that this is not really documented (unlike
ActiveWorkbook.CreateBackup) and I couldn't even find this out in such a
tome as JW's Excel 2002 Power Programming with VBA. It seems such a
useful method, too …..

Bob,

Yes, the directory has to be present, as I found out!

Regards, and thanks for your help,

Mark




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