Use the beforeclose and beforesave events to enforce/control what you want.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/events.htm
for an overview of events if you are not familiar.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"jen" wrote in message
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Is there a way to 'force' the user to save the file using a required name?
I
am sending out a template to 70+ users and need to pull in the data per
the
filename I want. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!