You can try being more explict - although I don't know if that will help:

Workbooks.Open Filename:="\\NLxx\BI Office reports\040\COM\Sales
statistics IND.xls", ReadOnly:=False

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Erik" wrote:

Hi,

I have a macro that functioned fine in Excel 2000 but somehow is
different in 2003.
Now when trying to open the file to be updated is opened Read-Only and
subsequently cannot save automatically. When opening the workbook
manually it just opens.
Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Erik

Top part of the vba:
Sub Auto_open()
'
' Auto_open Macro
'
'
Application.DisplayAlerts = False


Workbooks.Open Filename:="\\NLxx\BI Office reports\040\COM\Sales
statistics IND.xls"
Sheets("Detailed").Select
ActiveSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable1").RefreshTabl e
ActiveWorkbook.Save
ActiveWindow.Close