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ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs in /TMP?

Please forgive what may be astonishing ignorance.

On a PC, it works, but I can't get it to work on a Mac - Goal is to save a temporary Excel with macros file (so it will be deleted thereafter) with a standardized name for emailing. I'd like to do so in the TEMP directory. Here it is for the PC:

ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=Environ("temp") & "\" & Range("J112").Text & " - MCR " & Range("D112").Text, _
FileFormat:=52, CreateBackup:=False

I've tested various combinations without success. What to do?
Thanks!

Koen

i don't know how the save command needs to work on a mac...but good practice for debugging is creating a variable for your filename and save on the next line.
then when you step through your code, you can inspect the actual value of your MyFilename variable before the error hits...

Also when adding cell content to a filename you should consider error handling for illegal characters
I always use a function for that (that I found here on EE)

Function strLegalFileName(strFileNameIn As String)

'this function removes all illegal characters from a String used as sheetname and filename

    Dim i As Integer
    
    Const strIllegals = "\/|?*<>"":"
    strLegalFileName = strFileNameIn
    For i = 1 To Len(strIllegals)
        strLegalFileName = Replace(strLegalFileName, Mid$(strIllegals, i, 1), "_")
    Next i
End Function

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Zack Barresse

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