Macro to download files from website from excel

However, in any case, the message box at the end of the procedure will inform you that the downloading has finished. The short video below shows how the sample workbook is used to download two files from Dropbox. Motivated by some emails that I received from various blog readers, I decided to develop another version of the sample workbook.

As the above image shows, the updated version allows the user to define a file name for the downloaded file. However, apart from the file names, the user should also define and the file extensions ; for example, Test. The user then will have to add the extensions manually.

The zip file contains both workbook versions the old and the updated ones. The files can be opened with Excel or newer. Please enable macros before using them. Page last modified: September 28, I founded this site back in intending to provide solutions to various engineering and programming problems. I do have a question though, is this file suitable to download a shared file from SharePoint?

If you want to download from SharePoint, you have to be logged-in first. However, this cannot be done with the VBA code shown here. Hi Christos! Great job with this file! Any other solution? Thank you for pointing out the issue. It seems that for some unknown reason, Google accidentally marked the file as a virus! I have updated the link, so now you will be able to download both files. Thanks for this wonderful file. Clicking save just invokes the same msgbox again. I can't work out when it goes into this mode.

Some days I can work without this problem, other days I encounter this 2 or 3 times. The only thing I could suspect was I think this started around about the time I installed xlDennis' code library. I have uninstalled the addin and so far so good, but I cannot categorically say that this was the cause. Anyone have any idea? I want to create a userform with listbox with radio button and commandbutton on the same which will help me to connect to each url when I select the same in listbox and click on the commandbutton.

Code: Any suggestions.. I'm trying to open a pdf file from within excel vba. I have tried using the followhyperlink method but adobe acrobat opens very briefly then immediately closes Code: So then I tried to create an instance of acrobat by setting a reference to the acrobat object but I can't get this to work either! The code I'm using is Code: Any ideas what could be wrong with either approach? Hi all, The following code is placed in workbook 'A' and is used to open workbook 'B'.

These workbooks will now always be housed in the same directory and i want to change the code to use a relative path reference by determining the path of workbook 'A'.

Open 'C:Documents and Settings I can't find this solutions anywhere. I know how to send emails from Excel using VBA. When I get to the Body section, I want to insert a clickable link to a website, and also a clickable link to send an email not as important as the website.

Can this be done? I have found code to insert links to files, but none for website links. I know this question has been asked a bajillion times, so I apologize for the redundancy. I am working with an Excel spreadsheet and saving it as a. The system requires. I have been successful at preventing Excel from coverting that long number into scientific format. I have saved as a TXT file, pasted the longer number and it displays correctly.

That is all good. But I have to save as a. So if I do that, close the Excel window, and then open again as the. I have tried creating an Excel doc from scratch and entering text in Text format, to see if this created a cleaner file.

But again, the second I save as. Does anyone have any idea of how to work around this? Once I have successfully gotten the numbers to display as the long-chain number, how can I get them to 'stick' so that they don't revert back to scientific format when I reopen the file? Thanks so much for your help! I'm having a problem in a workbook with several ActiveX command buttons. I had been using the form control buttons to run macros, but the boss wanted each button to have it's own, different color.

So I removed the form control buttons and created new ActiveX command buttons. I got into the button properties and set the background colors. All of the buttons were working fine. Then I saved and closed the workbook and went to lunch. Now when I open the workbook, the buttons don't work! When I click them nothing happens. They appear frozen. They don't even seem to click.

No error message. If I right-click the button in Design Mode and select Properties, I get sheet properties not the button properties. I can't seem to locate the command button properties any longer. The odd thing is if I create a new button it works fine until I save and close the file. When I reopen the file none of the buttons work. It's like the buttons are being disabled when I close or open the file. Any suggestions? Is it possible to import a single text file into Excel, splitting the incoming data across multiple worksheets rather than a single worksheet?

Each each row on the text file would be evaluated by the value in one of it's 'columns' and written to the appropriate worksheet. The file is '! The files are very large, sometimes exceeding the 65, row limit, which I could avoid if the data was split out coming in. Thanks abe. The File Is Locked. Hi all, I've been getting this error on occasion recently.

Is there a way, perhaps through VBA, that I can not allow a user to save while somebody else is opening the document? Other suggestions on how to avoid this error? I have workbook in which I want to save a specific worksheet to a new file with only the values saved - all data in this worksheet are references to cells on another worksheet, which is using VLOOKUP to pull data from a database. Found the following code and it gets me close, but it copies the cell references, not the values.

It also allows me to specify the file name from a cell reference. Download a file from url using VBA But you will need to change saving path, file type etc. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. You can try it like this. The Overflow Blog. Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile.

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