Rich,

It doesn't work that way. The reason being that firstly it's protected
worksheet with only specific cells unprotected. Secondly, as the macro needs
to refer back to the variable workbook to copy information, once the filename
changes the macro is no longer viable. This is the hurdle, if at all
possible, I'm trying to overcome.

Regards
Jorge


"Rich Mcc" wrote:

cant you put the code in the file which the date changes and get it to open
and extract the data from the one that is always nammed the same



"Jorge" wrote:

Thanks Chip,

But as I'm not a programmer I'm not sure if I was able to take advantage of
your advice. Would you posibly be able to be a little more exlplicit in my
case.

It didn't seem to help. In any case whatever I name the variable file there
is no way I can control what others will name theirs. The file is actually a
work time sheet so the file name will contain a date, which as you can
imagine changes regularly.

Regards
Jorge

"Chip Pearson" wrote:

Try something like

Workbooks("Book5.xls").Worksheets("SHeet1").Range( "A1:A5").Copy _
Destination:=Workbooks("Book6.xls").Worksheets("Sh eet1").Range("A1")


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com



"Jorge" wrote in message
...
I have tried to create a macro that will copy and paste
information between
two woorkbooks. One of these always has the same file name (and
is a read
only template) where as the other will vary as it is used by
different
individuals.

Can this be done?

Regards
Jorge