Efficient method to convert excel workbooks to PDF

[Groovicles]

Hi everyone,

I have a piece of code which loops through around 1000 entries and creates unique workbooks for each one. This code works great when saving each workbook in the loop as an xlsx file. I made a small adjustment so the files save as PDF with the following line:

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I have also turned off ScreenUpdate.

I estimate it would take around 5 hours to create all 1000 PDFs. Does anyone know of any faster method of saving this workbooks as PDF? Is it perhaps faster to create the excel workbooks first and then convert afterwards? If so, how could I do that using VBA?

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

[LordLoki]

did you turn off calculation as well?

[Groovicles]

Hi Loki, no I haven't. There are 3 sheets calculated for each item in the 1000 row loop. Would I turn off calculations just within the loop?

[LordLoki]

I would put it before you start exporting and reset it when finished like this

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[Groovicles]

Hi Loki,

I'm think I might have the extra links in the wrong spot. Only the first row of the loop is being generated. Here's the code I have:

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Can you give me a hand placing the calculation lines in the right spots?

Thanks!

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[bakerman2]

How about this?

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[Groovicles]

Hi bakerman,

Thanks very much for your variation of the code. I've tried it out and it seems the code doesn't automatically save the files to the SPath folder and they don't seem to save as PDF (rather as an excel file) or with the proper file name either.

[bakerman2]

My bad. change this line

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to this

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As far as the filename goes I didn't change anything.