Run-time error 4172

Question

I have several groups of docs I open with macros.  Now when I try to open any of them, I get run time error 4172. I have no idea what this means and I know nothing about debugging macros. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I believe the Run-time error 4172 is thrown when Word encounters a "path not found" error.

• Have you changed the location or remapped network drives and/or shares to alternate locations?
• Did this start occurring when you upgraded to Word 2013?
• Have you established the documents' location as Trusted? An untrusted location will be considered not found.
• Can you post some redacted snippets of the VBA code throwing the error?

Answer 2

I believe the Run-time error 4172 is thrown when Word encounters a "path not found" error.

• Have you changed the location or remapped network drives and/or shares to alternate locations?
• Did this start occurring when you upgraded to Word 2013?
• Have you established the documents' location as Trusted? An untrusted location will be considered not found.
• Can you post some redacted snippets of the VBA code throwing the error?

Yes, once I changed paths, everything worked. I had forgotten I had moved my Word docs to a new location.

Thank you everyone for all your help.

Answer 3

Thanks once again, Doug, for a quick reply.

I do not know how to find the code for that error code. Right click on the window is not available.

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Answer 4

Show us the code that is giving the problem.  I assume that it is a File Not Found error that you are getting.

Answer 5

I have several macros I use all the time. Occasionally I will get "Run-time error 5174" on one or two macros. I then click on a macro that opens four documents at the same time and this gets the problem macro to work. Now none of my macros work. What to do?

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