You apparently don't have a worksheet with the name
208.Face-Centered_CCD.table

Perhaps it has a space on the end or something.

also, why do you try to take the leftmost 31 characters from a string of
length 27?

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Laks" wrote in message
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Please help.

When I type the following code and run in excel 2003, I get error
"subscript out of range" runtime error 9. This is not there for the same
code in 2000. How to resolve this.

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim tmpWB As Workbook
Set tmpWB = Workbooks.Open("C:\Program Files\General Electric\DFSS
Process\Databases9.14.98\208.Face-Centered_CCD.table", 0, True, 2)
Dim tmpSheet As New Worksheet
Dim s As String
s = Left("208.Face-Centered_CCD.table", 31)
MsgBox s
Set tmpSheet = Sheets(Left("208.Face-Centered_CCD.table", 31))
MsgBox tmpSheet.Name
End Sub