Thanks Nick. It works. But, time for confession. As mentioned, the
assignment of a name with mysheet.name = "DupsList" tested to work but had
changed back to "Sheet1" by the time the run came to save the file. So, I
put in a watch and discovered that deep in the code there was another
assignment to "Sheet1" that I had forgotten about. Groan. Sorry to have
troubled you.
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Lamont Phemister


"NickHK" wrote:

Lamont,
Possible that xlApp.Workbooks(1) is not the WB you think, if you have hidden
WBs open, like PERSONAL.xls.
You can test by adding a
Msgbox myBook.Name

Better to set you WB variable when you add:
Set myBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add

NickHK

"Lamont" wrote in message
...
This VB6 code code to assign "DupsList" as name to new worksheet appears
to
work during execution. But after the run, when I bring up the new
worksheet
in Excel, the name is still "Sheet1". It forgot my name assignment.
Thanks
for kind assistance.
sXLSSpec = "C:\Documents and Settings\CQA\My documents\" & _
"DuplicatesList.xls"
On Error Resume Next
Kill sXLSSpec
On Error GoTo 0
Set xlApp = New Excel.Application
xlApp.Workbooks.Add
Set myBook = xlApp.Workbooks(1)
'xlApp.myBook.Worksheets.Add
Set mySheet = myBook.Sheets(1)
myBook.Sheets(1).Name = "DupsLIst"
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Lamont Phemister