How to detect / bypass the Workbook Recovery window and process

[jjasmith4]

I'm working with a Word/VBA system, and as it goes, it opens an XLSX to get some information from it. One of many users reported that nothing came from the XLSX, so I manually opened Excel to open the file which the code should have opened, just to prove it wasn't a permissions / access issue.

What happened was that, when I double-clicked the XLSX, Excel opened, and the Recovery window came up, the one that tells you about unsaved documents following an abnormal crash. No other user had that, so it worked fine for the rest. And once I dismissed all the recovered files, closed Excel, and re-ran my Word/VBA system, it worked.

So somehow the presence of unsaved stuff following a crash is what prevents VBA code from opening any workbook. How in VBA can I create a new Excel application object (OK, I can do that) and successfully open a workbook in it without that recovery stuff getting in its way?

Thanks in advance.

 

[NdNoviceHlp]

Add some error code so that when XL errors it doesn't crash. HTH. Dave

 

[jjasmith4]

Not exactly an answer. My system is a Word DOCM. When it starts, it starts Excel by creating a new application object. So whatever the user has done in Excel has happened before my system even starts. So even before creating the object, how can I know Excel's recovery pane will come up and interfere?

 

[Paul Ked]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...4ef-4202-4830-bd93-3cefb0528167?auth=1&page=1

 

[jjasmith4]

Thanks, Paul Ked, I saw that, and after reading through it, I don't like it. It seems really clumsy and unusual for regular users to put up with, and I think I'll hear about it from many of them.

I did find out about %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Office\UnsavedFiles, so I'm going to give that a try...

 

[Paul Ked]

Good luck, I'll keep an eye on this thread if you'd be kind enough to update.

 

[jjasmith4]

Will do, but feel free yourself! Next time Word, Excel or Powerpoint crashes, check out that folder

 

[Paul Ked]

Just a thought, what if you delete all temp files that start with a tilde before opening excel?

 

[jjasmith4]

Oh believe me, I know about cleaning Temp, Content.MSO, tilde files, ATF Cleaner, CCleaner, Disk Cleanup, all that. They clean files, but they don't preven the Recovery dialog...

 

[Paul Ked]

Good ol' MSoft!