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category; I have a subroutine that opens a file based on some input from the on error goto vba user.... generally the file it looks ... LinkBack LinkBack URL About LinkBacks Bookmark & Share Digg this Thread!Add Thread to del.icio.usBookmark excel vba try catch in TechnoratiTweet this thread Thread Tools Show Printable Version Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Oct 17th, 2006,08:17 PM #1 cmhoz Board Regular Join Date Aug 2006 Location Australia Posts 268 vba:
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if error show msgbox I have a subroutine that opens a file based on some input from the user.... generally the file it looks for has a standard naming format used. However sometimes the person responsible for this will use some other name, thus screwing up my macro. Rather than excel showing the generic error box, confusing the user completely, I want it to show MY msgbox telling the user to go in and find
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the file manually... I'm sure I've done this before, but I'm drawing a blank on how I managed it. Any help out there?? Sub openphiac() Dim strfolder as string Dim strphiacfile as string strfolder = Range("folder") strphiacfile = Range("phiacfile") Workbooks.Open Filename:="O:\Phiac Data\PhiacTables\" & strfolder & "\" & strphiacfile & ".xls" End Sub Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter Reply With Quote Oct 17th, 2006,08:25 PM #2 HalfAce MrExcel MVP Join Date Apr 2003 Location Alaska Posts 9,444 Hi cmhoz Something like this ought to do it. Code: Sub openphiac() Dim strfolder As String Dim strphiacfile As String strfolder = Range("folder") strphiacfile = Range("phiacfile") On Error GoTo ErrMsg Workbooks.Open Filename:="O:\Phiac Data\PhiacTables\" & strfolder & "\" & strphiacfile & ".xls" Exit Sub ErrMsg: MsgBox ("Type in your message here."), , "MESSAGE TITLE" End Sub Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter Reply With Quote Oct 17th, 2006,08:26 PM #3 Macropheliac Board Regular Join Date Aug 2005 Posts 165 I can't test it, but maybe this: Code: Sub openphiac() On Error GoTo Errormask Dim strfolder As String Dim strphiacfile As String strfolder = Range("folder") strphiacfile = Range("phiacfile") Workbooks.Open Filename:="O:\Phiac Data\PhiacTables\" & strfolder & "\" & strphiacfile & ".xls" Errormask: MsgBox "Text Here!" End Sub Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter Reply With Quote Oct 17th, 2006
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posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow vba error handling in loop Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up VBA Paste and on Error display msgbox up vote http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/229230-visual-basic-applications-if-error-show-msgbox.html 0 down vote favorite I am sorry as this has been probbably discussed many time here. I have got following problem. This macro should paste from clipboard to cells(1,1). And if there is no data in clipboard, I would like it to display msgbox with test "Nothing to paste". What this keep doing is on error it will enter in cell(1,1) text: "MsgBox "Nothing to paste"" instead http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22712841/vba-paste-and-on-error-display-msgbox of displaying message. Could you please help me correct mistake? Many thanks in advance!!! Sub Paste() Cells(1, 1).PasteSpecial If Err Then MsgBox "Nothing to paste" End If End Sub excel vba error-handling share|improve this question asked Mar 28 '14 at 12:26 Petrik 3941317 it will enter in cell(1,1) text: "MsgBox "Nothing to paste"" instead of displaying message. - it's because your last action was copy this line of code and paste it in your sub. And this line is still in clipboard –simoco Mar 28 '14 at 12:34 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 0 down vote accepted Try clearing the clipboard after you paste your text so that the next run wont contain the same text that was just pasted. Sub Paste() On Error Resume Next Cells(1, 1).PasteSpecial 'Clear clipboard Application.CutCopyMode = False If Err Then MsgBox "Nothing to paste!" Err.Clear End If End Sub Here is another way that uses the MS clipboard more directly. First you need to add a reference to: Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library in your vba project. Public Declare Function OpenClipboard Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long Public Declare Function EmptyClipboard Lib "user32" () As
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3911973/vba-how-to-display-an-error-message-just-like-the-standard-error-message-which 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 Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; on error it only takes a minute: Sign up VBA: How to display an error message just like the standard error message which has a “Debug” button? up vote 12 down vote favorite 5 As usual, I create an error-handler using On Error Goto statement, there I put a few lines of cleaning codes and display the error message, but now I vba on error don't want to lose the comfortableness of the default handler which also point me to the exact line where the error has occured. How can I do that? Thanks in advance. excel vba scripting excel-vba ms-office share|improve this question asked Oct 12 '10 at 5:43 Vantomex 1,60431319 Just to keep the proper links ... this question continues here: stackoverflow.com/questions/3929997/… –Dr. belisarius Oct 16 '10 at 0:27 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 29 down vote accepted First the good news. This code does what you want (please note the "line numbers") Sub a() 10: On Error GoTo ErrorHandler 20: DivisionByZero = 1 / 0 30: Exit Sub ErrorHandler: 41: If Err.Number <> 0 Then 42: Msg = "Error # " & Str(Err.Number) & " was generated by " _ & Err.Source & Chr(13) & "Error Line: " & Erl & Chr(13) & Err.Description 43: MsgBox Msg, , "Error", Err.HelpFile, Err.HelpContext 44: End If 50: Resume Next 60: End Sub When it runs, the expected MsgBox is shown: And now