Check out the Dir function in help. With this you can seek out files
beginning with wkbk1, and then you would need to check the remainder to be a
date.

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HTH

Bob Phillips
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"sa26" wrote in message
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Here is my present problem. I have a macro on 7 workbooks that save them
with the date attached (i.e. "wkbk1 04-05-24.xls"). Now I need my eighth
workbook to search the computer harddrive for these workbooks and perform
the requisite tasks. Since I don't know the exact day that the files will
be saved, can I use the "wkbk1 **-**-**.xls" as a search parameter, or do I
have to go about it a different way? Any help would be great.