You have to have excel open to open and workbook and you have to have a
workbook open to run it macros. That said, you could make the application
(excel) not visible. This assumes you are running some code to do this
(from where I don't know).

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Regards,
Tom Ogivly

"bigdaddy3" wrote in message
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is it possible to run an excel workbook which contains macros to do all
the
required input without actually having excel open
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BD3