Vba File Copy Progress Bar
- VBA Progress Indicator Option 1 – The Status Bar. Displaying a progress indicator in the status bar (at bottom left of the Excel application window) is the easiest approach. All you need in your VBA code is a statement like: Application.StatusBar = “Processing”. And you will see the text “Processing” in the status bar of your.
- Dim x As Integer for x = 1 To filenames.Length - 1 ' Copy the file and increment the ProgressBar if successful. If CopyFile (filenames (x - 1)) = True Then ' Perform the increment on the ProgressBar. PBar1.PerformStep End If Next x End Sub.
Oct 03, 2014 'Hide and remove the Progress Bar pb.Hide Set pb = Nothing End Sub The result: Create your VBA Progress Bar. Below find a quick tutorial of how to create your own VBA Progress Bar User Form! Create a customer User Form. First you need to create a customer VBA User Form. Click on the link in case you want a tutorial on how to create these.
A VBA Progress Bar can be used to manage your users anxiety about the execution time of your VBA Macro. Sometimes there are very large and complex solutions built in Excel (which is a mistake mind you), where calculations or macro executions can take minutes or even hours. This causes many issues, especially for the end users who usually do not know how long processing the calculations/macros will take. In such cases it is important to notify the end users of the progress of your macros/calculations so they can switch to other activities. This is where the VBA Progress bar can aid you.
For one of my older projects I needed a VBA Progress Bar that would show:
- The current progress of the computations
- How much execution time was left (estimation)
Users especially wanted to know how much execution time was left – whether they should grab a coffee or stay and wait for the macro to finish. Calculating this is best done by approximating the time it took to run
Animated VBA Progress Bar Example
The easiest approach to animating an Excel is to create a simple VBA UserForm with the use of a label control which width you can manipulate to show the current progress. Easy and straightforward.
The result:
Create your VBA Progress Bar
Below find a quick tutorial of how to create your own VBA Progress Bar User Form!
Create a customer User Form
First you need to create a customer VBA User Form. Click on the link in case you want a tutorial on how to create these.
It is best to rename your UserForm e.g. to ProgressBar. Next add 3 VBA Labels to the User Form and change some selected properties per the image below:
Copy the VBA Progress Bar Source Code
Now we need the logic that will allow you to configure and run the Progress Bar. Right click on your new User Form and click View Code. Next copy past the code below:
Configure and Run
Now a quick explanation of the VBA Functions defined above:
- Initialize (title As String, Optional max As Long = 100)– needs to be run first. Initializes the variables needed to run the Progress Bar and allows you to set the title of the User Form and the max i.e. maximum % progress. By default max is set to 100 but you can change this e.g. you want to process 200 files then set it to 200
- AddProgress (Optional inc As Long = 1) – add inc incrementally to the amount of total progress. Assuming if you want to process 200 files and set the max value in Initialize and you processed 3 files then run AddProgress with inc equal to 3. When you process another 4 files then run AddProgress with inc equal to 4.
Now that we know the functions needed to run the Progress Bar let us configure and run your Animated Progress Bar in Excel. I added step by step comments to the example code snippet above.
I hope this was helpful. Managing the expectations of you users is key to creating effective automations in Excel VBA. Be sure to also check out ways to enhance the performance of your VBA Macros.
Download VBA Progress Bar
The VBA Progress Bar is part of the VBA Time Saver Kit. Feel free to download the full kit using the link below:
The FileSystemObject VBA CopyFile method copies one or more files from one a source to a destination location.
VBA CopyFile Syntax
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source
The source location of the file or files. You can use wildcards such as *.* to specify more than a single file matching the pattern.
destination
The destination location (folder) where the source files are to be copied to.
overwrite
Optional. If True will overwrite files with same name in destination folder. If True it will omit files for which there is an existing filename in the destination folder.