Rename active workbook

[John]

I need to rename a workbook without saving it. Is there any way of doing this in VBA, or any other way?
Thanks

[Russell Hauf]

On 2002-03-20 21:08, John wrote:
I need to rename a workbook without saving it. Is there any way of doing this in VBA, or any other way?
Thanks

Try this (and yes, to rename you have to save...otherwise there will be nothing there. If you still want your old copy, then don't use the Kill line).

ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs "MyFile.xls"
Kill "MyPreviousFileName.xls"

Hope this helps,

Russell

[I heart Excel]

What can you do if the file you want to delete varies in names?

My file name will depend on what it was saved as originally, and this is pulled from a cell.

[I heart Excel]

this is what I have so far that isn't working, looking at what you provided and amending it with some information I got from elsewhere -


ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs "S:\aliclock\Department Forms\Delete\Sickness Forms Complete.xlsm"
Kill "S:\aliclock\PAULINE SICKNESS TEST\" & Range("b11").Value
Application.Quit

It still is erroring, any ideas?

[jad69]

Try this one ......

WBname$ = ThisWorkbook.FullName
NewWBname$ = Left(WBname$, Len(WBname$) - 4) ' remove .xls
NewWBname$ = NewWBname$ & "SMALL.xls"
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs NewWBname$
Kill WBname$


Prompt$ = "Now Saved as a SMALL file at " & NewWBname$ & Chr(13)
Prompt$ = Prompt$ & " Killed " & WBname$ & Chr(13)
Prompt$ = Prompt$ & " DONE "
MsgBox Prompt$

[sshive1]

I was in a similar situation. I.E. I wanted to open up a copy of a template workbook, but name it specifically to the instance. You can save it as a temp file in your default %TEMP% folder. .tmp files are deleted on close. Therefore, it renames the file without saving another copy.

Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Set wb = xApp.Workbooks.Add("S:\Engineering\Test_Sample_DB_files\SampleData.xltx")
wb.SaveAs "C:\Users\sshive\AppData\Local\Temp\" & CStr(id) & ".tmp"