I've tried a number of variation on your idea and each one produces a 400
error.

"Barb Reinhardt" wrote:

You have:

Range("A5").FormulaR1C1 = "=IF('Executive Phone
List.xls'!A5="","",'Executive Phone List.xls'!A5)

You probably want something like this to reference A5

=Sheet1!A5 (if in the same workbook or

=[MyBook.xls]Sheet1!A5

if in another workbook

HTH,
Barb Reinhardt

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"Stephen" wrote:

Hi Folks,

This seems strange to me... I have a formula which works fine...
=IF('Executive Phone List.xls'!A5="","",'Executive Phone List.xls'!A5)
but when I try to insert that via a macro I get an error.

Range("A5").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=IF('Executive Phone List.xls'!A5="","",'Executive
Phone List.xls'!A5)"

Produces:

#NAME?

TIA,

Steve