I am a beginner programmer and have never created a .bat
file. Although I have "some" prior knowledge of VB.
I am in need of creating a bat file (or something
comparable) that I can put into Scheduler to run every
morning.

The idea is to open Excel (Excel is set up to open the
file automatically), pause for 30 seconds (an automatic
update happens during this time), save the file
(overwrite), and then close Excel.
I have not been successful finding switches for Excel
(start it, save and close). Any switches, examples or
ideas you can provide would be extremely helpful. Thanks,
Alexa