Use the Date and Year VBA functions, as in:
Sub showyear()
myYear = Year(Date)
MsgBox myYear
End Sub

Of course, for 2009 this year you could use:
myYear = Year(Date) +1
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"mohavv" wrote in message
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Is there a way to use the current year in a a macro?

I have the following code (partially):

Set wkbk = Nothing
On Error Resume Next
Set wkbk=Workbooks("08Bud 0770.xls")
On Error GoTo 0

If wkbk = Nothing then

Set wkbk = Workbooks.Open(Filename:"=P:\Excel\2008\08Bud 0770.xls"

etc

This repeats several times for different files

Now I want to copy the file for budget 2009 and all other sub files,
changing only the year number.

I want, without somebody opening VBE, the macro to work in the new
file to.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Harold