You don't need to open excel to do this.

Kill "C:\Myfolder\MyFile.xls"

should do the job

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Regards.
Tom Ogilvy

"Mark" wrote in message
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My code opens an Excel application (using CreateObject).

From within the Excel application, I'd like to write code to delete a file
(i.e., an Excel workbook) . What is the code to do this?

When I record the macro from the menu: file/open, right click highlighting
the file and left click delete, the file is deleted but the macro is
blank.
And Delete does not seem to be a valid method of Workbook.

Any Ideas? Is there some reference that I need to set to allow file
manipulation from within Excel?

Thank you,
Mark