kaplonk,

No. You must open an Excel file to change it. You could have the change
happen automatically when you _do_ open it, but you must open it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"kaplonk" wrote in
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What I want to do is have one separate xls file to use as a database,
then when any changes are made to this file, have other files
automatically update, without actually opening them and separatly
adding the data.
Is this possible?


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