Microsoft KB Archive/292482

= Error message when you run a Visual Basic for Applications macro in Excel: &quot;Method 'SaveAs' of object '_Worksheet' failed&quot; =

Article ID: 292482

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Excel 2007
 * Microsoft Office Excel 2003
 * Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q292482





SYMPTOMS
When you run a Visual Basic for Applications macro in Microsoft Excel, you may receive the following or similar error message:

Run-time error '1004':

Method 'SaveAs' of object '_Worksheet' failed



CAUSE
This behavior can occur when both the following conditions are true:
 * You are using a Visual Basic for Applications macro to save a worksheet.

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 * You specify the file format as the constant xlWorkbookNormal.

For example, the following code causes this error to occur: Sub A Dim myNewSheet As Worksheet Set myNewSheet = ActiveSheet FileNameBin = &quot;c:\ABC&quot; myNewSheet.SaveAs Filename:=FileNameBin, FileFormat:=xlWorkbookNormal End Sub



WORKAROUND
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To work around this behavior, change the file format specification from the constant xlWorkbookNormal to 1. The example code functions normally if changed to: Sub A Dim myNewSheet As Worksheet Set myNewSheet = ActiveSheet FileNameBin = &quot;c:\ABC&quot; myNewSheet.SaveAs Filename:=FileNameBin, FileFormat:=1 End Sub NOTE Even though you are saving a worksheet, all worksheets in the selected workbook are saved when the file format is set to xlWorkbookNormal or 1.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: XL2002 XL2003 XL2007

Keywords: kbbug kberrmsg kbpending KB292482

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