Try clicking on Tools/Options... click the General tab on the dialog box
that appears and note which OptionButton is selected in the Error Trapping
panel... if it is "Break on All Errors", then that is your problem... change
the selection to one of the other two (my suggestion is "Break in Class
Module"... it does the same thing as "Break on Unhandled Errors" plus some
additional things).

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"laavista" wrote in message
...
I've tried checking for an error code each time I open a file, but the
user
gets an error message from Excel and it stops the program.

Any suggestions?



"Ron de Bruin" wrote:

Hi laavista

You can loop through only the excel files and if it can't open the file
skip it

See
http://www.rondebruin.nl/copy3.htm




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Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm


"laavista" wrote in message
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I'm using Excel 2003.

Using VBA, I am looping through a number of excel files, extracting
data
from each, and writing that data into another excel spreadsheet.

Occasionally, there is a Word document in the directory, and once there
was
a corrupt Excel spreadsheet.

How do I check if the excel file that I'm trying to open is corrupt or
not
in an Excel format?

Your help would be greatly appreciated!
.