Conversion to Mac issue with VBA

jwarren73

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I have a workbook with VBA built in, built in Excel 2016, that is not working on the Mac version of Excel 2016...

Code:
Public Sub GenerateContact()


Dim wsA As Worksheet
Dim wbA As Workbook
Dim strTime As String
Dim strName As String
Dim strPath As String
Dim strClient As String
Dim strFile As String
Dim strPathFile As String
Dim myFile As Variant
On Error GoTo errHandler


Set wbA = ActiveWorkbook
Set wsA = Sheet6
strTime = Format(Now(), "yyyymmdd")


strClient = wsA.Cells(1, 1)


'get active workbook folder, if saved
strPath = wbA.Path
If strPath = "" Then
  strPath = Application.DefaultFilePath
End If
strPath = strPath & "\"


'replace any spaces and periods in sheet name
strName = Replace(wsA.Name, " ", "")
strName = Replace(strName, ".", "_")


'create default name
strFile = strClient & "_" & strName & "_" & strTime & ".pdf"
strPathFile = strPath & strFile
myFile = Application.GetSaveAsFilename _
    (InitialFileName:=strPathFile, _
        FileFilter:="PDF Files (*.pdf), *.pdf", _
        Title:="Select Folder and FileName to save")


'export to PDF
If myFile <> "False" Then
    wsA.ExportAsFixedFormat _
        Type:=xlTypePDF, _
        Filename:=myFile, _
        Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
        IncludeDocProperties:=True, _
        IgnorePrintAreas:=False, _
        OpenAfterPublish:=False


End If


exitHandler:
    Exit Sub
errHandler:
    MsgBox "Could not create PDF file"
    Resume exitHandler

Macros are running on the Mac system, this one errors out with the 'could not create PDF file' message that is built into it.



Code:
Sub SubmitChanges()


Dim Name As Long
Dim X As Long
Dim Y As Long






    With Application
        .EnableEvents = False
        .ScreenUpdating = False
        .Calculation = xlCalculationManual
    End With
    
'Create data row for new clients
    If IsError(Application.Match(Sheet3.Range("A2").Value, Sheet4.Range("A1:A10000"), 0)) Then
Y = Sheet4.Cells.Find("*", searchorder:=xlByRows, searchdirection:=xlPrevious).Row + 1
    Sheet4.Cells(Y, 1) = Sheet3.Cells(2, 1)
    Sheet4.Cells(Y, 2) = Sheet3.Cells(9, 2)
    Sheet4.Cells(Y, 3) = Sheet3.Cells(8, 2)
    Sheet4.Cells(Y, 41) = Sheet3.Cells(13, 2)

'Export values for existing clients
    Else: X = Application.Match(Sheet3.Range("A2").Value, Sheet4.Range("A1:A10000"), 0)
    Sheet4.Cells(X, 1) = Sheet3.Cells(2, 1)
    Sheet4.Cells(X, 2) = Sheet3.Cells(9, 2)
    Sheet4.Cells(X, 3) = Sheet3.Cells(8, 2)
    Sheet4.Cells(X, 41) = Sheet3.Cells(13, 2)

    End If
    
    With Application
        .EnableEvents = True
        .ScreenUpdating = True
        .Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
    End With


End Sub

And this one is working for creating a new row of data, but not for replacing existing rows...

Both subs work just fine in regular Excel, but not in the Mac version... any ideas?
 

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PC and MAC versions of excel are different, maybe you could record the same action in MAC and look at the code
 
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To start with you need to change
Code:
strPath = strPath & "\"
to
Code:
strPath = strPath & Application.PathSeparator
 
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To start with you need to change
Code:
strPath = strPath & "\"
to
Code:
strPath = strPath & Application.PathSeparator


Ahhhh that makes sense because of the different file/folder structure on Macs.. unfortunately I don't have a Mac to test it out on.
 
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beyond the file paths, parts of the system aren't implemented, there are guides on the web
 
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