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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.
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2014-02-08 20:54:40
David Ruben
This works provided the folder does not already exist, if it does then an error is generated: "Run time error '75': Path/File access error"
To prevent this first check if the folder already exists using the DIR function. This permits searches on a wildcard, but we will be specific, and returns the folder name if found, otherwise an empty string.
If Dir(DirName, vbDirectory) = "" Then MkDir DirName
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