UserStatus does not work on a read only file - and I am interested to find
out who is the user that is locking the file, so that does not help me.

on the help file it is written:
"Remarks
The UserStatus property doesn't return information about users who have the
specified workbook open as read-only."

Thank you.

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

See the UserStatus Property in VBA Help
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200790


"Dan" wrote:

Is there a way to find out in VBA if an xls is open in read/write mode by
someone and who that someone is.
Many thanks,
Dan