does it work if you only put 2 files in the folder? does it work if you create 2
new dummy files and put them in the folder? another folder with a different
name?

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Gary


"rjr" wrote in message
. ..
No disabled items found.
Opened them manually as late as this evening. I've opened them without issue
at least 15 times today.

Bob

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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That eliminates using the DIR command as a possible source of the problem.

Since the problem is in xl2003, then perhaps:

In excel I would go to Tools=About Microsoft Excel, then look in Disabled
Items button at the bottom. If any of your files are listed there, then I
would remove them from being disabled (select the appropriate files one at a
time in the list and hit the Enable button for each).

You said you had opened them manually, but that may have been sometime in the
past.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"rjr" wrote in message
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Tom Thank you,
I ran it and it ran to the first msgbox and then displayed the first file
name. WHen I selected ok it errored out again with the 1004 error and the
debug highlighted this area of code
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(list(i))

Any help??
BOb

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Try it like this

Sub AllFolderFiles()
Dim wb As Workbook
Dim TheFile As String
Dim MyPath As String
Dim list() As String
Dim i As Long
ReDim list(1 To 1)
MyPath = "C:\Temp"
ChDrive MyPath
ChDir MyPath
TheFile = Dir("*.xls")
Do While TheFile < ""
list(UBound(list)) = MyPath & "\" & TheFile
ReDim Preserve list(1 To UBound(list) + 1)
TheFile = Dir
Loop
ReDim Preserve list(1 To UBound(list) - 1)
For i = 1 To UBound(list)
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(list(i))
MsgBox wb.FullName
wb.Close
Next i
End Sub

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"rjr" wrote in message
.. .
Gary my apologies, I used your code as a standalone and the first loop
worked fine and opened the first file, but when it did the loop errored
out as did Otto's, on the second round. This is the same thing that
happened with Otto's code and does it consistentantly with my desktop and
my laptop.

I'm sorry for not getting back with you on this. Can you think of a reason
your 2003 would work and mine wouldn't?
Bob Reynolds


"Gary Keramidas" <GKeramidasATmsn.com wrote in message
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this works for me

Sub AllFolderFiles()
Dim wb As Workbook
Dim TheFile As String
Dim MyPath As String
MyPath = "C:\Temp"
TheFile = Dir(MyPath & "\" & "*.xls")
Do While TheFile < ""
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(MyPath & "\" & TheFile)
MsgBox wb.FullName
wb.Close
TheFile = Dir()
Loop
End Sub

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Gary


"rjr" wrote in message
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Hello again to all,
I wish it were that simple. Nope I'm windows XP Media Center Edition
with all current updates and a valid updated Office Professional
product.
As a side note I've also placed it on my Dell D520 laptop with Windoes
XP Professional and Office 2003 with the exact same results. Since it
works for everyone else it obviously has to be something with my
computers, but WHAT? My dell laptop is relatively clean without a lot of
additional programs and the results are the same. That's why I think the
problem lies with my machine's setup...

Bob R

"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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Otto,

This is out of the blue, but perhaps the user having the problem is
using a Macintosh? If this proves to be the case, the code will fail on
the line indicated because Macs don't use the '\' character as a path
separator. Instead, they use, I think, a ':' character. Instead of hard
coding the '\', use Application.PathSeparator. E.g.,

Set wb = Workbooks.Open(MyPath & Application.PathSeparator & TheFile)

The code you posted works fine for me in Excel 2007 for Windows.

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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
(email address is on the web site)

"Otto Moehrbach" wrote in message
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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 ...
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