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Conditionally exit a subroutine

I have a button in my excel workbook that launches nine macros/routines.  The macros run one after the other and are dependent on the data generated by one or more of the previous.  Of course when I started i only ran three or so macros and the whole thing crept/grew to where I am now.  Problem I have is that I want to exit out of the routines if a error condition is found (I have a variable, error count, and if this equalls one or more the condition is met).  So say following the execution of macro #3 I run my error check and If if finds an error it will bail on the remaining macros.  

Alternately i can embed my macro into macro #3 and do the same bailing out.  

Still another option is to merge all the macros  into one , embed the error check code, and bail out if an error is found.  Bottom line is I don't know how to do this, nor how best to do this.
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Martin Liss

8/22/2022 - Mon
Phillip Burton

To exit a subroutine, use Exit Sub

To do that conditionally, test for the condition using IF THEN, then have Exit Sub as the THEN part.
aikimark

If you want to chain them, then create a new routine that will invoke the other nine in succession.  After each routine ends, you check to see if they raised an error and act appropriately.
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I used a similar approach, but made the bError variable a global so that I could reference it multiple times for the same test.  not sure if i needed to, but that is what i did.
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