How to save a file using "if then or else" in case the 1 drive is not found

Henriette

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I made an invoice-manager system using your site for help it works perfect but.....
My office has 4 pc's and I work from shared folders (Z://). The main drive is C... . Ofcourse when I work my invoice-manager from the C-drive my vba code for saving the file doesn't work.
How to use the IF,THEN,ELSE vba code so that if work from the C drive and it doesn't recognize this command it goes to a second command of saving the file at the C:// drive?
THIS IS MY VBA MODULE:Sub InvoiceReport()Dim myFile As String, lastRow As LongmyFile = "Z:\HLEKTRONIKH TIMOLOGISH\INVOICE MANAGER" & Sheets("Invoice").Range("J13") & "_" & Sheets("Invoice").Range("C13") & "_" & Sheets("Invoice").Range("J40") & "€" & "_" & Format(Now(), "dd-mm-yyyy") & "_" & ".xlsm"lastRow = Sheets("Data-Invoices").UsedRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row + 1'create invoice in XLSX formatActiveWorkbook.SaveAs "Z:\HLEKTRONIKH TIMOLOGISH\INVOICE MANAGER" & Sheets("Invoice").Range("J13") & "_" & Sheets("Invoice").Range("C13") & "_" & Sheets("Invoice").Range("J40") & "€" & "_" & Format(Now(), "dd-mm-yyyy") & "_" & ".xlsm", FileFormat:=52'ActiveWorkbook.Close</yt-formatted-string>

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Hi

welcome to forum

See if this change to your code does want you want

Code:
Sub InvoiceReport()
    Dim myFile As String
    Dim SharedFolder As Boolean
    
    With Sheets("Invoice")
    myFile = "Z:\HLEKTRONIKH TIMOLOGISH\INVOICE MANAGER" & _
                .Range("J13") & "_" & _
                .Range("C13") & "_" & _
                .Range("J40") & "€" & "_" & _
                Format(Now(), "dd-mm-yyyy") & "_" & ".xlsm"
    End With
                
'check if shared folder available
    SharedFolder = CBool(Dir(myFile, vbDirectory) <> vbNullString)
'if not change to local drive
    If Not SharedFolder Then myFile = Replace(myFile, "Z", "C", 1, 1)
'save workbook
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs myFile, FileFormat:=52
'inform user
    MsgBox "Invoice Saved To " & IIf(SharedFolder, "Shared Folder", "Local Folder"), 64, "Save"
'close
    ActiveWorkbook.Close False
End Sub

If not, please explain further, plenty here to help you

Dave
 
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Thank you Dave it helped a lot but I have one question for now because it say that the document is saved but I can not find it.
the ecxact directory (there were the shared folder comes from on the main pc is: C:\Users\Public\Documents\HLEKTRONIKH TIMOLOGISH\INVOICE MANAGER
This is the shared folder were my boss has to save the document who is working from the main pc.
The other 3 pc are working with this shared folder and at all 3 pc the path name is Z:\HLEKTRONIKH TIMOLOGISH\INVOICE MANAGER\
HOW TO CHANGE THE VBA CODE TO SAVE THE DOCUMENT TO C:\Users\Public\Documents\HLEKTRONIKH TIMOLOGISH\INVOICE MANAGER\
IF IT DOESNT FIND THE Z:\.... PATH IN THE FIRST PLACE

Thanks
 
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Hi,
try this update

Code:
Sub InvoiceReport()
    Dim myFolder As String, myFileName As String
    Dim SharedFolder As Boolean
    
    myFolder = "Z:\HLEKTRONIKH TIMOLOGISH\INVOICE MANAGER"
'check if shared folder available
    SharedFolder = CBool(Dir(myFolder, vbDirectory) <> vbNullString)
    If Not SharedFolder Then
'use local folder
        myFolder = "C:\Users\Public\Documents\HLEKTRONIKH TIMOLOGISH\INVOICE MANAGER"
    End If
    
'get filename from ranges
    With Worksheets("Invoice")
        myFileName = .Range("J13") & "_" & _
        .Range("C13") & "_" & _
        .Range("J40") & "€" & "_" & _
        Format(Now(), "dd-mm-yyyy") & "_" & ".xlsm"
    End With
    
    On Error GoTo myerror
'save workbook
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs myFolder & "\" & myFileName, FileFormat:=52
'inform user
    MsgBox "Invoice Saved To " & IIf(SharedFolder, "Shared Folder", "Local Folder"), 64, "Save"
'close
    ActiveWorkbook.Close False
    
myerror:
'report errors
    If Err <> 0 Then MsgBox (Error(Err)), 48, "Error"
End Sub

Dave
 
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