[vba] Saving excel worksheet to CSV files with filename+worksheet name using VB

I am very new with VB coding, I am trying to save multiple excel file worksheets to csv, I don't know to do this for multiple sheets, but I found a way to do for single file. I have found code on this site which are very useful for what I am trying to do, only problem is the files are saved with the worksheet name but I am trying to save them with the original file and worksheet name such as filename_worksheet name, I tried to do that myself but keep getting error, could you please advise what I am doing wrong?

The code I am using is as follows:

   Public Sub SaveWorksheetsAsCsv()

   Dim WS As Excel.Worksheet
   Dim SaveToDirectory As String

   Dim CurrentWorkbook As String
   Dim CurrentFormat As Long

   CurrentWorkbook = ThisWorkbook.FullName
   CurrentFormat = ThisWorkbook.FileFormat
   ' Store current details for the workbook
   SaveToDirectory = "H:\test\"
   For Each WS In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
   WS.SaveAs SaveToDirectory & WS.Name, xlCSV
   Next

Application.DisplayAlerts = False
ThisWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=CurrentWorkbook, FileFormat:=CurrentFormat
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
' Temporarily turn alerts off to prevent the user being prompted
'  about overwriting the original file.

End Sub 

Best way to find out is to record the macro and perform the exact steps and see what VBA code it generates. you can then go and replace the bits you want to make generic (i.e. file names and stuff)

I had a similar problem. Data in a worksheet I needed to save as a separate CSV file.

Here's my code behind a command button

Private Sub cmdSave()
    Dim sFileName As String
    Dim WB As Workbook

    Application.DisplayAlerts = False

    sFileName = "MyFileName.csv"
    'Copy the contents of required sheet ready to paste into the new CSV
    Sheets(1).Range("A1:T85").Copy 'Define your own range

    'Open a new XLS workbook, save it as the file name
    Set WB = Workbooks.Add
    With WB
        .Title = "MyTitle"
        .Subject = "MySubject"
        .Sheets(1).Select
        ActiveSheet.Paste
        .SaveAs "MyDirectory\" & sFileName, xlCSV
        .Close
    End With

    Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub

This works for me :-)

The code above works perfectly with one minor flaw; the resulting file is not saved with a .csv extension. – Tensigh 2 days ago

I added the following to code and it saved my file as a csv. Thanks for this bit of code.It all worked as expected.

ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=SaveToDirectory & ThisWorkbook.Name & "-" & WS.Name & ".csv", FileFormat:=xlCSV

Is this what you are trying?

Option Explicit

Public Sub SaveWorksheetsAsCsv()
    Dim WS As Worksheet
    Dim SaveToDirectory As String, newName As String

    SaveToDirectory = "H:\test\"

    For Each WS In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
        newName = GetBookName(ThisWorkbook.Name) & "_" & WS.Name
        WS.Copy
        ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs SaveToDirectory & newName, xlCSV
        ActiveWorkbook.Close Savechanges:=False
    Next
End Sub

Function GetBookName(strwb As String) As String
    GetBookName = Left(strwb, (InStrRev(strwb, ".", -1, vbTextCompare) - 1))
End Function