Thanks Bob, but how do I keep this open workbook Hidden while I work on it.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:


Set wb = Workbooks("the_wb_name").Open
' do your stuff
wb.Close

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HTH

RP
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"James" wrote in message
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Hi
Could someone please adbvise on the following
* I would like to open a Excel workbook from within another workbook. It
contains data & would like it to be hidden
* would perform some searches on this hidden Data workbook from calling
workbook (can I do that)
* once done would like close this hidden datda workbook

Thanks a lot