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Creating a Directory in a Macro

Summary: When you create macro, you might want to use it to create a folder on your hard drive. You can accomplish this with one simple command, as described in this tip. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003, and Excel 2007.)

If you need to, you can create a disk-drive directory (folder) using VBA. This is done with the MkDir command, and is a remnant from the same command in earlier versions of BASIC. The syntax is:

MkDir DirName

where DirName is the full pathname of the directory you want to create. If you do not use a string variable to specify the directory name, then DirName must be enclosed in quotes. You might want to use this command if you want to create a directory where you can store temporary files you are building with your macro.

Tip #2462 applies to Microsoft Excel versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007


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