You can have VBA do the same thing a user can do on the worksheet. Say we
want to get the value in cell A1 in sheet b in file b.xls in folder c:\temp2

Pick a helper cell (say Z100) and:

Sub dumpit()
Dim s As String
s = "='C:\temp2\[b.xls]b'!$A$1"
Range("Z100").Formula = s
End Sub
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200760


"john" wrote:

See Ron de Bruin's site:
http://www.rondebruin.nl/ado.htm
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JB


"Berj" wrote:

Hi All,

Is there a command which I can add at the beginning of a macro so
that it can access the data in other Excel files without opening them?

Thanks.