Kill Command in Excel (Delete Files Using VBA)
How to safely remove, delete, kill any Excel file, or other file, using VBA Macros in Excel.
You will learn how to build a macro that can delete files based on different conditions:
- How to delete all macro-enabled files.
- How to delete all Excel files.
- How to delete only xlsx files.
- How to delete files from a certain date or date range.
- How to delete files with certain patterns or text or numbers in their name.
- How to check if a file exists before trying to delete it.
This tutorial is a small version of the Kill Command tutorial in my full VBA course.
Resources:
Kill Command for VBA (microsoft link)
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