Hi Jim

how about adding the line
Windows("quotes.xls").Visible = True
and then just to be sure that it is activated
Workbooks("quotes.xls").activate
in after the .Open line

Cheers
JulieD

"jim simpson" wrote in message
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I an using Windows 98 and Excel 2000.

Following are the first few lines of code of a program that runs at night
unattended. If "quotes.xls" happens to have been hidden when Excel was
last
closed then line 3 opens it as a hidden file and this program stalls when
the code ( line 4) tries to activate one of the several sheets in the
file
.
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Application.AskToUpdateLinks = False
Workbooks.Open "d:/allyears/quotes.xls"
Worksheets("Current Quotes").Activate

I have tried to follow the "open" instruction with every version of
"visible" I can think of without success.

Can someone help me with this problem?

Thanks.

Jim