My subroutines open up a lot of files with very specific names. I will be
careful to give those files the right names before starting the macro.

One thing I'm having trouble with is telling it the right path and folder to
look in. Though I could try to automate the pathname too, I am starting to
think that it would be just best to have the macro let me browse to the
folder, WITHOUT even opening a file. can someone suggest some VBA code to
have it let me browse to a folder and then set that folder as the default
place to look for any files I am to LATER open, even the very first one.

Thanks,
Grace