Any chance that the other program could be using an instance of excel that's
already running?

wrote:

Thanks again Dave. The only thing that has me puzzled is that this is
working on another system that is running Excel 2003. I'll keep poking
at it to see if I can figure something out. Cheers!

On Sep 5, 3:16 pm, Dave Peterson wrote:
It sounds like the program is starting excel, then loading the template.

This is different from starting the template directly (like double clicking on
an excel file).

Since you can't get to the guts of the third party application, I think you'll
have to open the file yourself.

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Dave Peterson