A colleague uses Excel 97, and received an error "1004 application-defined or object-defined error" running a workbook that works fine in Excel 2000. Frustratingly, their version of excel doesn't permit me to edit/view the code, and the debug button is greyed out... even when i supplied a password-deprotected version
Anyway, by deduction the code stops at

Selection.Replace What:=y1, Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlWhole,
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False,
ReplaceFormat:=Fals

This sub is defined as

Option Explici
Dim y1 As Varian
Sub code(
Sheets("Sheet2").Selec
y1 = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(1,1).Valu
Sheets("Malcoded").Columns("A:A").Selec
Selection.Replace What:=y1, Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlWhole,
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False,
ReplaceFormat:=Fals
...

Presumable something to do with how i have defined "y1", or how i hav selected the range to operate on
Any ideas... can't debug this one on their PC and no Excel 97 to test
TI

Mike

In Excel 97 the Replace function has these arguments:

expression.Replace(What, Replacement, LookAt, SearchOrder, MatchCase,
MatchByte)

It doesn't have a Searchformat or Replaceformat argument, so it chokes.

Since you aren't using those arguments, just remove them.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Mike" wrote in message
...
A colleague uses Excel 97, and received an error "1004 application-defined
or object-defined error" running a workbook that works fine in Excel 2000.
Frustratingly, their version of excel doesn't permit me to edit/view the
code, and the debug button is greyed out... even when i supplied a
password-deprotected version !
Anyway, by deduction the code stops at:

Selection.Replace What:=y1, Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlWhole, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False

This sub is defined as:

Option Explicit
Dim y1 As Variant
Sub code()
Sheets("Sheet2").Select
y1 = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(1,1).Value
Sheets("Malcoded").Columns("A:A").Select
Selection.Replace What:=y1, Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlWhole, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False
...

Presumable something to do with how i have defined "y1", or how i hav
selected the range to operate on.
Any ideas... can't debug this one on their PC and no Excel 97 to test.
TIA

Mike

Many thanks Tom

I cut those properies and i'll see if it works when someone can test it - i'm sure it will be fine
On a similar note - are there any good resources to easily find those properties that are supported/unsupported by various flavours of Excel - would help for these problems greatly
many thanks again

Mike

Not really - obviously using xl97 to check - the best approach is to develop
in the lowest version that will use the code.



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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Mike" wrote in message
...
Many thanks Tom,

I cut those properies and i'll see if it works when someone can test it -
i'm sure it will be fine.
On a similar note - are there any good resources to easily find those
properties that are supported/unsupported by various flavours of Excel -
would help for these problems greatly.
many thanks again.

Mike