Jimm,

Take a look he
http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/arch...-deleted-rows/

Hopefully you'll understand it quicker than I did! Of course you still have
to deal with Ctrl-O and opening from Windows Explorer.

hth,

Doug

"Jimm" wrote in message
...
Is it possible to hook into the click event for the File / Open menu on
the
OfficeMenu in Excel 2007 - I need to override the file open box with a
different prompt - ( eg. selections from a database...)


Thanks

Jimm C