Code works for me in XP. If I substitute local values for the variables.
What error message are you getting?

The best I can find about TrailingMinusNumbers at MSDN is this description:

TrailingMinusNumbers Optional Variant. Numbers that begin with a minus
character.
Bob Kilmer

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The following code works with Windows 2000, but not with Windows XP. Can
someone
explain why, and provide a workaround?

Also, what does "TrailingMinusNumbers" do?

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=my2ndFileName, Origin:=437, _
StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlFixedWidth, FieldInfo:=myArray, _
TrailingMinusNumbers:=True

Thanks,
Bernie