Excel VBA doesn't support linking to closed workbooks like excel itself
does. John Walkenbach has documented a method that uses and Excel 4 macro
to in VBA to do this.

http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/tips/tip82.htm

you can possibly use ADO, but that would seem more appropriate for a data
table.

http://www.erlandsendata.no/english/vba/adodao/

Andy Wiggins recently suggest sql.request

This might be a help for getting data to and from Excel and Access: It
includes examples of using variables in SQL queries.
http://www.bygsoftware.com/examples/sql.html

Or you can get there from the "Excel with Access Databases" section on page:
http://www.bygsoftware.com/examples/examples.htm

It demonstrates how to use SQL in Excel's VBA to:

* create a database,
* create a table and add data to it,
* select data from a table,
* delete a table,
* delete a database.

You can also download the demonstration file called "excelsql.zip".

The code is open and commented.


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"Tommy Flynn" wrote in message
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I'm almost there, but I just can't get it quit right. I am try to get a
value from a cell using the full path to the file. This ain't working,
but
it's close. What am I doing wrong?

Sub Test()
pName =
"U:\ExcelFiles\ADI-JournalEntries\Current_Month\Advance-O&M_Cur.xls"
MsgBox pName & Sheets("Journal1").Range("R22")
End Sub