Barb is right
you need to point to a specific worksheet which has not been done

On 11 Gru, 19:55, Barb Reinhardt
wrote:
You are not referencing the sheet at all. *It won't work unless the sheet is
referenced
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"Stephen" wrote:
I see what your saying but no good.

ChDir "M:\FDR\Human Resources\Phone Lists"
Workbooks.Open Filename:="M:\FDR\Human Resources\Phone Lists\Management
Phone List.xls"

Range("A5").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=IF('M:\FDR\Human Resources\Phone Lists\Executive
Phone List.xls'!A5="","",'M:\FDR\Human Resources\Phone Lists\Executive Phone
List.xls'!A5)"
Range("B7").Select

still produces:

#NAME?

any more thoughts?

"ryguy7272" wrote:

I think you need the full reference to the file. *I see the file name, but
not the full path. *Excel is searching for the file and can't find it.

Does this work for you?
='[Executive Phone List.xls]Sheet1'!$A$1

Start the macro recorder, open the source, reference, whatever, link, and
turn off the recorder.

Regards,
Ryan---

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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?

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