Have you try ADO
http://www.rondebruin.nl/ado.htm


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Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm


"keri" wrote in message oups.com...
I still have the same problem if I remove that part.

Opening the file is the problem as many people are accessing at the
same time and the time it takes can be up to half an hour to open the
file, filter the data and copy the filtered range which is what I was
doing.

I'm trying everything as this is V urgent, i'm now working on
microsoft query but cannot seem to pass variables for the path and
filename to it.