Excel: Suppressing Error Alerts in Macro or Branching at Error

Last reviewed: October 31, 1994
Article ID: Q31691

SUMMARY

To temporarily turn error checking off during a macro, use the function =ERROR(FALSE).

To run a different macro if an error occurs, use the function =ERROR(TRUE,ref), where ref is the reference of the macro to run should an error occur.

For example, when using DATA.FIND(TRUE) in a macro, to prevent the "No Match" alert when no database records match the criteria on the worksheet, use the following macro steps

   =ERROR(TRUE,ref)
   =DATA.FIND(TRUE)

where ref is the location to go to when DATA.FIND(TRUE) does not find any records.

This procedure can be can be used with other functions, such as FORMULA.FIND() and OPEN().

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Last reviewed: October 31, 1994
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