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How to save excel sheet as new name when a cell is changed?

Hello! I'm trying to create a macro that saves the current worksheet as the current date and time when I paste something on the sheet. I get an error on the 'If intersect..' line, saying

Runtime error 1004
Method 'Range' of object '_Global' failed

Sub savedate()
If Intersect(Target, Range(“A1”)) Is Nothing Then
Exit Sub
Else
 ActiveSheet.SaveAs ("Libraries\Documents\Tempcode" & format(Now(), "DD-MMM-YYYY hh mm AMPM") & ".xlsx")
End If
End Sub

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The purpose of this is because i'm copying and pasting data into this workbook, and will want to track the date/time that this data was extracted. This data is actually the script of a webpage but I'm unable to incorporate the date when I'm copying it, so I am trying to save the date when I paste it in my workbook. I will use the saved sheet for subsequent steps.

I'm not sure what the error means, and even so, I don't think this will save the worksheet upon pasting. I think I will have to activate the macro once I paste. I'm open to any other methods to save the date/time upon pasting the data. Hope you can help me with the code, thank you!

Pearlyn Tan

Asked: 2018-01-28

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zvitamConsultantCommented: 2018-01-29

From the error you received it seens that target is not a valid range, Intersect parameters should both be valid ranges.
If target is null then you might get this error.

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Martin LissOlder than dirtCommented: 2018-01-29

Your code should not be in a sub of your making since unless you defined your own 'Target' variable some place, Excel won't recognize it. Instead you should put the code in the worksheet change event like this.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Intersect(Target, Range("A1")) Is Nothing Then
    Exit Sub
Else
    ActiveSheet.SaveAs ("Libraries\Documents\Tempcode" & Format(Now(), "DD-MMM-YYYY hh mm AMPM") & ".xlsx")
End If
End Sub

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Secondly, when I copied your code, 'A1' was surrounded by smart quotes and you should change them to regular quotes as in the code I just posted.

Pearlyn TanAuthor Commented: 2018-01-30

Thanks Martin, that was the main mistake. Relatively new to VBA so this helped a lot. However with your code, I had to add

FileFormat:= _
xlOpenXMLWorkbook, CreateBackup:=False

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for it to work.

This is the current full code but I'm having another issue: once the macro runs, the new workbook (with the date and time as file name) will be active and the original workbook will be closed. I'm wondering if I can keep the original workbook (with macros) to be active and have the new workbook to close. If possible, I'd also like to just save the current worksheet instead of the entire workbook.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Intersect(Target, Range("A1")) Is Nothing Then
    Exit Sub
Else
Dim filename As String
filename = format(Now(), "DD-MMM-YYYY hh mm AMPM") & ".xlsx"
    ActiveSheet.SaveAs filename:=filename, FileFormat:= _
xlOpenXMLWorkbook, CreateBackup:=False
End If
End Sub

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LVL 53

Martin LissOlder than dirtCommented: 2018-01-31

Please close this question and then ask a new one.

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Martin LissOlder than dirtCommented: 2018-01-31

You’re welcome and I’m glad I was able to help.

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