Ignore "Do you wish to save" box on exit of excel
Solution 1
ActiveWorkbook.Close False
(to close the workbook)
Application.Quit
(to quit Excel - doesn't prompt to save changes)
From Microsoft Support's How to suppress "Save Changes" prompt when you close a workbook in Excel:
To force a workbook to close without saving any changes, type the following code in a Visual Basic module of that workbook:
Sub Auto_Close() ThisWorkbook.Saved = True End Sub
Because the Saved property is set to True, Excel responds as though the workbook has already been saved and no changes have occurred since that last save.
The DisplayAlerts property of the program can be used for the same purpose. For example, the following macro turns DisplayAlerts off, closes the active workbook without saving changes, and then turns DisplayAlerts on again.
Sub CloseBook() Application.DisplayAlerts = False ActiveWorkbook.Close Application.DisplayAlerts = True End Sub
You can also use the SaveChanges argument of the Close method.
The following macro closes the workbook without saving changes:
Sub CloseBook2() ActiveWorkbook.Close savechanges:=False End Sub
Solution 2
The answer you have above is for VBA
- you can address this in your VBS
directly by using
oWorkBook.Close False
Set oWorkBook = Nothing
in place of
Set oWorkBook = Nothing
Comments
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Cassandra McCarthy over 1 year
I have a script that opens an excel file and runs a macro, then quits the file. Since the file is in read only mode, and the script makes temporary changes to the file, when the script calls
myExcelWorker.Quit()
excel asks if I want to save my changes and I must click 'no'. Is there any way to exit the program and skip this box?' Create a WshShell to get the current directory Dim WshShell Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") ' Create an Excel instance Dim myExcelWorker Set myExcelWorker = CreateObject("Excel.Application") myExcelWorker.Visible = True ' Tell Excel what the current working directory is ' (otherwise it can't find the files) Dim strSaveDefaultPath Dim strPath strSaveDefaultPath = myExcelWorker.DefaultFilePath strPath = WshShell.CurrentDirectory myExcelWorker.DefaultFilePath = strPath ' Open the Workbook specified on the command-line Dim oWorkBook Dim strWorkerWB strWorkerWB = strPath & "\BugHistogram_v2.xlsm" Set oWorkBook = myExcelWorker.Workbooks.Open(strWorkerWB) ' Build the macro name with the full path to the workbook Dim strMacroName strMacroName = "CreateImagesButton_Click" on error resume next ' Run the calculation macro myExcelWorker.Run strMacroName if err.number <> 0 Then ' Error occurred - just close it down. End If err.clear on error goto 0 ' oWorkBook.Save ' this is ignored because it's read only myExcelWorker.DefaultFilePath = strSaveDefaultPath ' Clean up and shut down Set oWorkBook = Nothing ' Don’t Quit() Excel if there are other Excel instances ' running, Quit() will ' shut those down also if myExcelWorker.Workbooks.Count = 0 Then myExcelWorker.Quit End If myExcelWorker.Quit() Set myExcelWorker = Nothing Set WshShell = Nothing
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Cassandra McCarthy over 9 yearsThank you! I used the CloseBook() method.