Tom
Thanks for your help as well as Dave and Chip. Here's what the OP and I
just did to establish a hard starting point. He set all the code I had
written for him aside. Instead, he used the macro from:
http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqMac.html#LoopBooks

with NO CHANGES of any kind. No other macro or macro call was used.

He established a path in his computer to match that used in the macro and
placed his test files in that folder.

He ran the macro.

The error message is:

Run-time error '1004'

Method 'Open' of object 'Workbook' failed.

The highlighted code line is the "Set wb = ............"

The full macro is:

Sub AllFolderFiles()
Dim wb As Workbook
Dim TheFile As String
Dim MyPath As String
MyPath = "C:\Temp"
ChDir MyPath
TheFile = Dir("*.xls")
Do While TheFile < ""
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(MyPath & "\" & TheFile)
MsgBox wb.FullName
wb.Close
TheFile = Dir
Loop
End SubWe will try any suggestion you and the others can come up with.
Thanks for your time. Otto"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Since you don't show the code, have him send you the file that fails to
open and test the code with that file. Perhaps the file is damaged or not
a file Excel will open.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Otto Moehrbach" wrote in message
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Excel XP & Win XP
I'm helping an OP with a project. The code loops through all the files
in a folder, opens each, does things, closes the file and opens the next
file, etc.
The code is placed in the Personal.xls file. It works fine for me. It
fails on opening the first file for him (will not open the file). An
error is produced saying that opening the file failed. He has Excel
2003.
He sent me his Personal.xls file. I changed the name and put it in my
XLSTART folder. It works fine with my path. I created his path on my
computer and that works fine too.
I checked the VBE - Tools - References. The only thing I have checked
that he doesn't is "Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library". He doesn't have
anything like that to check.
Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do? Thanks for your time.
Otto