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DoCmd.OutputTo causes run-time error 2024 or 2302

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DoCmd.OutputTo causes run-time error 2024 or 2302

by  PaulBricker  Posted    (Edited  )
After sweating over this problem and not getting anywhere with search, I found the solution is almost as simple as MS describes in their Knowledge Base article.

M$'s example to duplicate the problem
Code: 
Sub OutputSnapshot()
   DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, "Alphabetical List of Products", acFormatSNP, "C:\My Documents\", True
End Sub

What they don't explain is you need to add the file name to the OutPutFile argument. You can either hard code the name, or you can use a variable if you want to assign different names each time your run the code. In this example, I change the name of the .snp file by assigning the current date to the name.
Code: 
Sub OutputSnapshot()
Dim myFile as String

     myFile = "SomeName" & Format(Date(),"mmddyy") & ".snp"
   DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, "Alphabetical List of Products", acFormatSNP, "C:\My Documents\"[blue] & myFile[/blue], True 
End Sub
One hint is to make sure you don't have any invalid characters in the file name which is why my example takes the / out of the date format.
HTH
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