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Excel: GET.DOCUMENT() Macro Error with Numbered Filenames
Last reviewed: June 30, 1997
Article ID: Q107904

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a
  • Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, version 4.0

SUMMARY

When you concatenate the result from the macro command GET.DOCUMENT(1) within a SELECT() statement to select a range on an active sheet, you will receive a macro error if the GET.DOCUMENT(1) statement returns a filename beginning with a number.

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Steps to Reproduce Problem

  1. Enter the following in a macro sheet.

    A1: Numname_macro A2: =SELECT(INDIRECT(GET.DOCUMENT(1)&"!A1:B2",TRUE)) A3: =RETURN()

  2. Select cell A1 and choose Formula and Define Name.

  3. Define the macro as a command macro.

  4. Save a new worksheet as 1043.XLS.

  5. Activate the new sheet and run the above macro by choosing Run from the Macro menu and selecting Numname_macro.

A macro error will occur at macro cell A2.

To fix the above macro command, make these changes: insert quotation mark, apostrophe, quotation mark, ampersand after the second open parenthesis; add apostrophe before the exclamation point. The modified code should now match the line below. 

   =SELECT(INDIRECT("'"&GET.DOCUMENT(1)&"'!A1:B2",TRUE))
   =RETURN()

Additional query words: 4.00 3.00 3.00a
Keywords : kbmacro kbprg kbprg
Version : 4.00 4.00a | 4.00
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: June 30, 1997
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