Trouble with Excel Selection to PDF

[McNab]

Hi lovely people

I usued this forum years ago but have always love it.

Basically I am trying to print a certain selection of cells from Excel to a PDF
(a) I want the macro to define a static range
(b) I want it to the name the file
(c) I want the hyperlinks in the file to work when I send it out

I have tried a bunch of macros but am on Mac and using Fusion for my Excel work. Each time I get an error. It feels like a printeer problem albeit being a total novice I don't understand what a printer has to do with writing to PDF from Excel.

Here are some of the ones I have tried. Basically I am starting a SPA company and need to send a schedule to our therapists. I have worked our the simple stuff but can't get the **** to PDF to print.

I hope you are well and someone can help. It would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

VBA I have tried but doesn't seem to work. I can send individual error messages if needed.


Sub PrintSelectionToPDF()
'SUBROUTINE: PrintSelectionToPDF
'DEVELOPER: Ryan Wells
'DESCRIPTION: Print your currently selected range to a PDF

Dim ThisRng As Range
Dim strfile As String
Dim myfile As Variant

If Selection.Count = 1 Then
Set ThisRng = Application.InputBox("Select a range", "Get Range", Type:=8)
Else
Set ThisRng = Selection
End If
'Prompt for save location
strfile = "Selection" & "_" _
& Format(Now(), "yyyymmdd_hhmmss") _
& ".pdf"
strfile = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & strfile

myfile = Application.GetSaveAsFilename _
(InitialFileName:=strfile, _
FileFilter:="PDF Files (*.pdf), *.pdf", _
Title:="Select Folder and File Name to Save as PDF")

If myfile <> "False" Then 'save as PDF
ThisRng.ExportAsFixedFormat Type:=xlTypePDF, Filename:= _
myfile, Quality:=xlQualityStandard, IncludeDocProperties:=True, _
IgnorePrintAreas:=False, OpenAfterPublish:=True
Else
MsgBox "No File Selected. PDF will not be saved", vbOKOnly, "No File Selected"
End If

End Sub

Sub ExportToPDF()

With Sheets("Jenny").Range("c4:J18")
.ExportAsFixedFormat _
Type:=xlTypePDF, _
Filename:="C:\downloads\Jenny_Today.pdf", _
Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
IncludeDocProperties:=True, _
IgnorePrintAreas:=False, _
OpenAfterPublish:=True
End With

End Sub

Sub ExcelWordPaste()

Dim objWord As Object
Dim objDoc As Object

Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
objWord.Visible = True

Range("c4:j18").Copy

Set objDoc = objWord.documents.Add
With objDoc.Range
.PasteExcelTable False, False, False
.Tables(1).AutoFitBehavior 2 'wdAutoFitWindow
.InsertAfter vbCr
End With
End Sub

 

[severynm]

Welcome!

VBA I have tried but doesn't seem to work. I can send individual error messages if needed.

Yep. Please include these, including on which line they occur. It's hard to help without knowing what the error is.

It feels like a printeer problem albeit being a total novice I don't understand what a printer has to do with writing to PDF from Excel.

I don't know this for sure, but my guess is it might be using printer drivers to do the actual export - i.e. if you File → Print → Microsoft Print to PDF or Microsoft XPS Document Writer, you might end up with the same result. Someone else might better know, however.