Creation date in cell

[Guest]

Hi
I posted this last week and now I can't find the replies in Outlook - only
online!
The file that I am working on is an imported .txt and the macro that I am
using crashes with a Run-time error 5 - Invalid procedure call or argument.
The line I'm trying to use is this:
Range("A2").Value =
ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties("CreationDate")
and I'm wondering if it's because the sheet is not technically a workbook.
The macro imports a .txt file, deletes junk from it and formats some of the
columns and I need to get the creation date of the txt file.

The response I had was to try ("Creation Date"). I have tried this on a few
worksheets, using the immediate window. I get the same date and time for 2
of the sheets (even though they weren't created at the same time) and when I
try it on my txt file I get
Runtime error '-2147467259 (80004005)'. Automation error. Unspecified error.
A search for this on the net doesn't help.
Thanks..
Andy.

 

[Gary''s Student]

Try:

Sub garbit()
Dim fs, f
Dim st, s As String
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fs.GetFile("C:\dummy.txt")
s = "Created: " & f.DateCreated
MsgBox s
st = Split(s, " ")
MsgBox (st(1))
End Sub


This should get you the creation date of any file ( here dummy.txt). Just
change the GetFile argument.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that. The slight snag is that I need this macro to run
automatically on a number of different files - and I don't want to have to
edit the macro for each one.
Cheers.

 

[Gary''s Student]

O.K. then...

Sub garbit()
Dim fs, f
Dim st, s As String
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fs.GetFile("C:\dummy.txt")
s = "Created: " & f.DateCreated
st = Split(s, " ")
Range("A1").Value = st(1)
End Sub

 

[Gary''s Student]

If you have more than one file whose date you want then:

Sub garbit()
Dim fs, f
Dim st, s, fname(3) As String

' list your files here

Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
For i = 1 To 3
Set f = fs.GetFile(fname(i))
s = "Created: " & f.DateCreated
st = Split(s, " ")
Cells(i, 1).Value = st(1)
Next
End Sub


Haven't tested this. You need to initialize fname with you file names.

 

[Guest]

Hi
Thanks for your help Gary - I appreciate it. I was hoping to get a routine
that would just give me the creation date of the active spreadsheet, but
it's obviously not going to be simple as it just throws up the error I
posted! Thanks again.
Andy.