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Check if a certain file exists on your hard drive using a macro

4/30/2019

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This week I want to demonstrate how to verify whether or not a certain file (e.g. Docx, XLS, XLSM, etc.) exists within a certain directory on the computer.

Here is a macro that will scan drive C for a XLSM file named “ABC123” and will return "File Exists!" if that particular file exists and "File Does Not Exist in this directory" otherwise.
 
Sub Check_File()
      Dim ObjectFileName As String
      Dim CFS
      Set CFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    ObjectFileName = "C:/ABC123.XLSM"
        If Not CFS.FileExists(ObjectFileName) Then
        MsgBox "File Does Not Exist in this directory"
    Else
        MsgBox "File Exists!"
    End If
End Sub


All you have to do is go to Developer> Visual Basic > Module. Then copy and paste the code above into the module page. Make sure to change the object file name on the fifth line of code to reflect the name and directory of the file you are searching for (i.e. “C:/ABC123.XLSM”). 
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Here is the message that I correctly got after running this macro. This shows that a file named “ABC123.XLSM” exists on my C drive.
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