It isn't an excel setting. It is a setting under folder options (accessed
from various locations, usually including Start=Settings) hide known file
extensions I believe.

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Tom Ogilvy

Murray Williams wrote in message
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Tom,

Not having specifying the extension IS my problem. I've
been working to correct it when I come across it.
Unfortunately, I've written a lot of macros where I use
Workbooks("Myfile") instead of Workbooks("Myfile.xls") and
do not always have the time to fix them the moment I need
to run the macro. Is there an excel setting that I can
set on my machine to get it to accept Workbooks("Myfile") -
- it used to do this up until about 1 month ago.

thanks,

Murray Williams


-----Original Message-----
oApp1.Workbooks.Open filepath

won't produce subscript out of range to the best of my
knowledge.

The problem with getting subscript out of range on
another computer is when
you don't put the extension on the filename in the
workbooks collection.

If you do

set wkbk = Workbooks("Myfile")

vice
set wkbk = Workbooks("Myfile.xls")

you can get a subscript out of range error using the
first syntax based on
the status of whether extenions are hidden or not setting.


Perhaps that is the source of your problem.

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Tom Ogilvy


"M J" wrote in message
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Actually I tried that and I also tried hardocding a file
name and I still get the same "Subscript Out of Range"
error when I try to open the excel file from the macro.

Anything else?


-----Original Message-----
If you activeworkbook is also in C:\ as you seem to
indicate, then the
string you build for filepath will be

"C:\\filename.xls"

since the Activeworkbook.Path for a file in the root
directory includes the
"\" on the end.

filePath = Activeworkbook.Path
if left(filePath,1) < "\" then filePath = filepath
& "\"
filePath = filepath & filename & ".xls"

NT based systems don't seem to be bothered by the \\
(from what I have
seen), but windows 9.x will break.

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Tom Ogilvy


"M J" wrote in message
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Hi

My problem occurs when I click a button to open
another
excel file from a macro within a separate excel
file. I
think the code and error occurs simply from the
following
lines of code:

On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:
filepath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\" & filename
& ".xls"
oApp1.Workbooks.Open filepath

I am not using any network mappings to find the
files.
In
fact, I saved all the files on the local C:\ on my
coworkers computer.

When I click the button, I get a "Subscript out of
Range"
error and for some reason, the excel file I'm tryin
to
open gets locked for editing.

??


-----Original Message-----
It is unlikely that your problem is the version of
VBA/Excel your
coworker is using. The most likely explanation
based
on
what I know so
far, which isn't much, is that the file your code is
opening is on your
network and the network drive where it is located is
mapped differently
on your coworker's computer. Check that out and
let me
know how that
works out. - Pikus


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