Comments on: The Life of a Lion Tamer http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dick Kusleika http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-40895 Dick Kusleika Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:14:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-40895 <p>Ed: How many rows are used in that worksheet? (just curious, I don't think it's related to the problem) Here's the offending code:</p> <div style="overflow: auto; white-space: nowrap;" class="codecolorer-container text default"><div style="white-space: nowrap;" class="text codecolorer">rNext.Parent.Parent.Save</div></div> <p>If rNext was nothing, you would get a different error (Object variable or With Block variable not set). I guess if the folder or file was read only or you otherwise didn't have permission you would get Method Save...failed. But I doubt that happened and then magically unhappened. I wonder if the 'temp' file became corrupted somehow and the reboot cleaned it out. I really need to take Walkenbach's suggestion of writing to a CSV.</p> <p>Anyway, I'm glad it's been useful to you.</p> Ed: How many rows are used in that worksheet? (just curious, I don’t think it’s related to the problem) Here’s the offending code:

rNext.Parent.Parent.Save

If rNext was nothing, you would get a different error (Object variable or With Block variable not set). I guess if the folder or file was read only or you otherwise didn’t have permission you would get Method Save…failed. But I doubt that happened and then magically unhappened. I wonder if the ‘temp’ file became corrupted somehow and the reboot cleaned it out. I really need to take Walkenbach’s suggestion of writing to a CSV.

Anyway, I’m glad it’s been useful to you.

]]> By: Ed Kavanaugh http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-40889 Ed Kavanaugh Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:45:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-40889 <p>I have been a happy user of TaskItv3 since Feb. Outside of a couple of little 'ticks and fleas' that I caused when tinkering the program has been an unquestionable success for me keeping track of my time and appropriately assigning it to the right accounts. On Sept 1, I got this message that I have never seen before (and haven't seen since):<br> <i>09/01/09 09:43:26 [TaskItv3.xlsm]MHelpers.WriteTask(), Error -2147417848: Method 'Save' of object '_Workbook' failed</i></p> <p>I had just completed a windows update so I shut everything down and rebooted, voila no problem. In my never ending battle to not let something just be, I wonder what happened?<br> Any ideas?</p> <p>Ed</p> I have been a happy user of TaskItv3 since Feb. Outside of a couple of little ‘ticks and fleas’ that I caused when tinkering the program has been an unquestionable success for me keeping track of my time and appropriately assigning it to the right accounts. On Sept 1, I got this message that I have never seen before (and haven’t seen since):
09/01/09 09:43:26 [TaskItv3.xlsm]MHelpers.WriteTask(), Error -2147417848: Method ‘Save’ of object ‘_Workbook’ failed

I had just completed a windows update so I shut everything down and rebooted, voila no problem. In my never ending battle to not let something just be, I wonder what happened?
Any ideas?

Ed

]]> By: GreenBoy http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-34711 GreenBoy Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:23:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-34711 <p>See, where i have been going wrong all this time is i put Goofing off down as J-Walkblog.</p> See, where i have been going wrong all this time is i put Goofing off down as J-Walkblog.

]]> By: Dick Kusleika http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-34682 Dick Kusleika Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:14:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-34682 <p>It passed "qualtiy" control, but my head accountant caught it in about 2 seconds. That's one of the down sides of on-the-fly categories; one misspelling lives forever.</p> It passed “qualtiy” control, but my head accountant caught it in about 2 seconds. That’s one of the down sides of on-the-fly categories; one misspelling lives forever.

]]> By: Ken Puls http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-34681 Ken Puls Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:03:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-34681 <p>Anyone else see the irony in the fact that "quality" is misspelled?</p> Anyone else see the irony in the fact that “quality” is misspelled?

]]> By: John Walkenbach http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-34676 John Walkenbach Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:33:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-34676 <p>You're doing very well, Dick. 80% of my days are Misc. 90% if you don't count lunch as work.</p> You’re doing very well, Dick. 80% of my days are Misc. 90% if you don’t count lunch as work.

]]> By: Dick Kusleika http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-34675 Dick Kusleika Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:41:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-34675 <p>Yes, Misc is goofing off, but I might show this to my boss some day, so better to obfuscate it. It includes Labor Day, lunch, reading blogs and newsgroups, and taking my car to the mechanic (3 times this week). Even if I take out the holiday, it's still the biggest category. That's sad.</p> Yes, Misc is goofing off, but I might show this to my boss some day, so better to obfuscate it. It includes Labor Day, lunch, reading blogs and newsgroups, and taking my car to the mechanic (3 times this week). Even if I take out the holiday, it’s still the biggest category. That’s sad.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-34673 Jon Peltier Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:29:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-34673 <p>I don't see Tetris, unless that's lumped into Misc.</p> I don’t see Tetris, unless that’s lumped into Misc.

]]> By: Simon Murphy http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-34672 Simon Murphy Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:04:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-34672 <p>Dick<br> Who discovered lions were scared of chairs?</p> Dick
Who discovered lions were scared of chairs?

]]> By: John Walkenbach http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/09/05/the-life-of-a-lion-tamer/#comment-34671 John Walkenbach Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:12:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1892#comment-34671 <p>So Misc is the code word for Goofing Off?</p> So Misc is the code word for Goofing Off?

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