Automation Error Catastrophic Failure Excel 2003
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do some additional work on this file - mainly new formulas and outline, but no code writing. The file was opened as 2003
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and was saved in the same fashion, was not converted to 2007 at any point. I saved it and closed it. I then opened it on my original computer and after opening it gave me "Automation Error - Catastrophic Failure"
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message without an error number. Right after that it sent me to VBA screen and instead of having my file name under the Project Tree, it has "VBAproject". I click on it and can see my code and my forms, but the worksheets are not label properly plus they have this little blue icon next to them. I tried to open the file again by clicking Disable macros, and no error was given but obviously can't do much with automation error catastrophic failure excel 2016 the file. One thing I read around is about sharing and references. This file sharing options were turned off so that's not it. I then realized under VBA-Tools-References that the office 2007 is referencing different files for some of the selections, like Visual Basic For Applications, Microsoft Excel 12.0 Object Library, etc. I copied those files to the proper folders on the 2003 computer but that didn't do the trick. When I click disable macros and go to check the references in the 2003 version everything looks normal. Any ideas? I did quite of work on this file so redoing this is the last resort but I hope I don't have to go that route. Thank you in advance! Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:47 PM Reply | Quote All replies 0 Sign in to vote Hi, Automation errors usually occur when a workbook is trying to run some macro that contains objects they are not included in the references section of the VBA editor. One example that would produce this is having some controls on a form which require a specific DLL to be correctly registered on a client PC. If these DLLs are on your pc, the workbook is fine. Put this same workbook on another PC without the DLLs, and an automation error will occur. Hope this helps. Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:42 AM Reply | Quote Moderator 0 Sign in to v
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about system error &h8000ffff catastrophic failure Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with catastrophic failure excel 2010 us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is automation error in excel vba a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Automation Error Catastrophic Failure with VBA in Excel up vote 0 down vote favorite https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/341479ae-903a-423e-9a51-c3456ae7ad13/automation-error-catastrophic-failure?forum=excel This subroutine, when run, gives me an Automation Error: Catastrophic Failure at specific instances. 'Prints out the items in the collection given Public Sub ListColl(coll As Dictionary) Dim i As Integer Dim Key As Variant i = 0 For Each Key In coll.keys Debug.Print "Item " & i + 1; ": " & coll.Items(i) & " Key: " & Key i = i + 1 Next End Sub UPDATE I've http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10806591/automation-error-catastrophic-failure-with-vba-in-excel investigated the behavior a little further, and the error seems to occur when I add a key, value pair in between entries in my dictionary a second time. Entries are added with this: If Me.NewNodeNameBox.Value = vbNullString Then Set NodeSpanDict = DictAdd(NodeSpanDict, "Node " & NumNodes, "Node " & NumNodes, NodeSpanDict.keys(SpanNum)) Set NodeSpanDict = DictAdd(NodeSpanDict, "Span " & NumSpans, "Span " & NumSpans, "Node " & NumNodes) Else Set NodeSpanDict = DictAdd(NodeSpanDict, Me.NewNodeNameBox.Value, Me.NewNodeNameBox.Value, NodeSpanDict.keys(SpanNum)) Set NodeSpanDict = DictAdd(NodeSpanDict, "Span " & NumSpans, "Span " & NumSpans, Me.NewNodeNameBox.Value) End If Which adds to the end of the dictionary if a textbox in a form is empty, or adds in between entries with the name typed in the textbox. Below is the DictAdd subroutine: Function DictAdd(StartingDict As Dictionary, Key, Item, Afterkey) As Dictionary Dim DictKey As Variant Set DictAdd = New Dictionary For Each DictKey In StartingDict DictAdd.Add DictKey, StartingDict(DictKey) If DictKey = Afterkey Then DictAdd.Add Key, Item End If Next DictKey End Function I use the ListColl sub to debug my dictionary basically whenever it is manipulated. UPDATE This subroutine is run right when the worksheet is opened, which serves to add three default entries to the dictionary (node 1, span 1, node 2). Public Sub set_vars() Set N
VBA / Office Integration > Excel > Shared workbook error : "Catastrophic failure." !! Thread Tools Display Modes #1 08-14-2003, 03:41 PM spartain Newcomer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Bozeman, MT Posts: 3 Shared workbook error : "Catastrophic failure." http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/excel/99427-shared-workbook-error-catastrophic-failure.html !! I have developed a Shared Excel workbook with lots of macros and visual basic code behind it. It's been working great, but this morning when I opened it, an error box popped up that said "Automation error. Catastrophic failure." Selecting "OK" http://superuser.com/questions/1016789/compile-error-in-hidden-module-automation pulled up the VB editor, which was useless since you can't view any code on a Shared folder. Excel also froze up on me (forcing me to restart it). Everyone on the network had the same problem (we're all on Windows 2000) catastrophic failure except our secretary (for some reason we were never able to figure out...). Then we did the following procedure: 1. Open the workbook, disabling the macros (all of our security levels are set to Medium). 2. Turn the "Sharing" property off. 3. Save. 4. Turn the "Sharing" property back on. 5. Close the workbook. It doesn't really make sense, but the next time we tried to open it (enabling the macros), it worked, and hasn't given us any trouble since. The problem is that automation error catastrophic this workbook is for a client, and we want to fix it so that the error is not generated again--and since we were never able to find the cause, we don't know what changes we need to make. Does anyone have any ideas or experience with this type of error? One other question. We also noticed that the when the workbook is Shared, the act of saving and closing the file (even when you don't make any changes!) adds about 1 MB to the th file size! However, if you turn "Sharing" off and then turn it back on, it resets the file size to the original. Any ideas on how to keep it from blowing up? Thanks!! spartain View Public Profile Find all posts by spartain #2 08-14-2003, 04:29 PM Mike Rosenblum Microsoft Excel MVP Forum Leader* Guru * Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: New York, NY, USA Posts: 7,848 I am going to take a wild guess that you have more experience with Shared Workbooks than the rest of this forum combined. But anyone else with experience here should chime in... I'll put down a couple of thoughts from my limited experience here: (1) I found shared workbooks somewhat difficult to deal with. This became especially true as the workbooks grew in size (nothing mysterious, just Users adding more data over time), it bogged down and got too slow eventually. We bailed and went to other solutions. But we had little invested ef
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Compile error in hidden module Automation up vote 0 down vote favorite I have recently been issued with a mathematical model in an Excel spreadsheet. This involves copious numbers of sheets, with many macros and a boatload of VBA behind the scenes. But the model is rather old and was last known to work on Windows XP, Excel 2003. I am currently using Windows 8.1 and Excel 2013, and it is producing the error message:- Compile error in hidden module: Automation twice on starting up and once on closing down; the model doesn't work either although no further error message is produced. Does anyone know how to fix the problem causing this message to appear? (I suspect the model's failings are related to this.) microsoft-excel windows-xp windows-8.1 share|improve this question asked Dec 22 '15 at 15:40 Brian Hooper 73841329 We have no way of knowing the issue without seeing the VBA. Obviously something in the module Automation is no longer compatible. The failure is likely exiting the routine, meaning nothing else is running. There have been a lot of changes to Excel VBA since 2003. You are going to have to debug it to find where is is failing. –CharlieRB Dec 22 '15 at 15:52 @CharlieRB, so the "Automation" isn't some Microsoft thing, then? I feared as much. Thank you. –Brian Hooper Dec 22 '15 at 15:55 No. The message is telling you it is in a module (which is in VBA) that is hidden. You will need to unhide it and