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    Exporting an object from a worksheet to the Computer Desktop

    Happy Friday everyone

    I have been working on code to create shortcut with a custom icon with code. What I am having a problem with is getting the custom icon, which is saved to Sheet 1 as an object, to the computer desktop. I thought the easiest way to do this would be to select the object, copy it and paste it to the desktop. Easy enough, but I am having a real problem finding the path to the desktop to execute the sendkey command to paste. Would any of you have a solution to this?

    Sub ExportObject()

    ActiveSheet.Shapes.Range(Array("Object 2")).Select
    Selection.Copy


    'TargetPath = Desktop

    SendKeys "^v"

    End Sub

    Another solution would be to simply export the object but I would have no idea on how to do this either.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated

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    Re: Exporting an object from a worksheet to the Computer Desktop

    You need to be more specific about what you want to do. You cannot copy a shape and paste it to the desktop.

    Do you want to export your shape as an image file (e.g., JPG) and save that file to the desktop? That still will not give you a shortcut using a custom icon, just an image file.

    It would help if you gave a complete explanation of what you want to do. Excel may not be the best way to do it.
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    Re: Exporting an object from a worksheet to the Computer Desktop

    Thanks for responding. I have other code to create the shortcut and to assign the custom icon to the shortcut, but it needs to be on the desktop in order to work. So I need to export the object (which is a .ico file called Icon.ico) to the desktop and the other macro will find the ico file and assign it to the shortcut. Since I have solved the second macro, i did not include it. Would it be helpful if I added it to give a clearer picture? Thanks

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    Re: Exporting an object from a worksheet to the Computer Desktop

    Just in case, here is the macro in its entirety. Special thanks to Christos Samaras who wrote the bulk of this macro and is so credited. As you can see, I only need to get the object (.ico object) to the desktop and the rest of the macro will then create a shortcut, find the icon, and apply it to the new shortcut. The trick is to get the .ico file from the worksheet to the desktop for the rest of the macro to find it. I hope this helps. If I can get this to work, this will be a really neat trick.

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