Coming out of macro with error message

Posted by yogesh k. potdar on October 31, 2001 12:33 PM

Hi,

I would like to the macro to stop and come out with a warnign message that - say "Cannot run on this file, check file contents" - if its unable to process the file - because of various reasons - e.g. data format not correct or divide by zero or something else..
Basically a generic way in which macro "stops" when it encounters error or cannot proceed rather than just
crashing..??

It would be great if someone can suggest how to know the error codes - i.e. macro stops with "OVerflow" or
"Bad Data type" or something like that..

Thanks

Posted by Jerid on October 31, 2001 12:44 PM

Add this to your macro.

sub YourMacro()
'First line of code
On Error Goto ErrHandler

'Your code

'Bottom of sub
Exit sub

ErrHandler:
Msgbox "An Error has occured" & vbcrlf & "Error Number " & Err.number
exit sub
end sub

Posted by yogesh k. potdar on October 31, 2001 1:25 PM

Thanks to everyone for working on this for me the answer that Juan Pablo gave worked,what was that code 160?? now any ideas why I cant do the Alt 0,1,6,0 in the replace box? I will try it on my computer at work tomorrow and see if it works. Do you think reinstalling Excel might help? Again thanks to everyone for your help. Paul B