Scribd
Upload
132 views

Create Folder With VBA

This document provides code examples for creating folders with VBA in Excel. It shows how to use the MkDir function to create a folder in a specified path. Examples are given to create a folder based on the current date/time or by referencing the value in a cell. A loop is also demonstrated to create multiple folders by iterating through a range of cells containing folder names.

Uploaded by

Dorin Manolea
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
132 views

Create Folder With VBA

This document provides code examples for creating folders with VBA in Excel. It shows how to use the MkDir function to create a folder in a specified path. Examples are given to create a folder based on the current date/time or by referencing the value in a cell. A loop is also demonstrated to create multiple folders by iterating through a range of cells containing folder names.

Uploaded by

Dorin Manolea
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Create Folder with VBA

MkDir ThisWorkbook.Path & "\my_folder_name"

Sub ytrewq()
Dim s As String, s2 As String

s = "C:\TestFolder\zzzz\"
On Error Resume Next
MkDir s
On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

Varianta mea
Call Creare_Dosar.Creare_Dosar

Sub Creare_Dosar()
Dim s As String, s2 As String
Dim dt As String
dt = VBA.Format(Now, "yyyy_mm_dd")
s = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\Analize_Calibrari\"
Shell "cmd /c md " & """" & s & """", vbHide
End Sub

With Excel VBA you can create a folder in a specific directory to save your file or files to.
Rather than saving files to a pre-existing folder you can create a folder on the fly so to speak
which more suits the nature of the Excel file you are creating. For example, you may be
creating a monthly budget with VBA and the file is best saved in a folder with the month
name. You can use VBA to do this for you in real time. The following is the code;
Sub AFolderVBA()
MkDir "C:\MonthlyFiles\January"
End Sub

As you can see the VBA coding is quite straight forward. There needs to be a folder called
MonthlyFilesin the C drive for this to work and after the VBA procedure has run the folder
path should look like this;

"C:\MonthlyFiles\January"

'Ensure the drive is in quotation marks.

To have the folder name created by a name in a cell you could do the following;

Sub AFolderVBA()
MkDir "C:\MonthlyFiles\January"
End Sub

Sub AFolderVBA1() 'PLace the name of the folder in A1


MkDir "C:\Test\" & [a1]
End Sub

Where the name of your folder is in A1 of your Excel file. Perhaps you want to take this
procedure one step further with Excel VBA and you would like to create numerous folders
and save your files into this folder.

Lets say you had the folder names from cells A1 to A5. Firstly I will create a simple loop. To
understand looping in VBA the below article on Looping Constructs gives some background
into the process.

Sub AFolderVBA2() 'Excel VBA to make a folder.


Dim i as Integer

For i=1 to 5
MkDir "C:\MonthlyFiles\" & Range("A" & i)
Next i
End Sub
The above procedure is a simple VBA loop which starts at A1 and takes the value in that cell
and makes a folder in theC: MonthlyFiles directory.

For more information on looping with VBA see the following: LOOPING

You might also like