Hey folks, I need a little help.

First and foremost, does Excel VBA support recursive functions/subs?
(IE: can I call a sub from within the same sub?)

Second. Does VBA have a way to browse through file directories? I have
a file Hierarchy, and what I would love is for Excel to start at the
top and for every .xls file it finds, put it in a list in the
spreadsheet calling the 'search' macro. It should return the path of
the file name. Since these spreadsheets are nested within directories,
which are within directories, which are within directories, etc...

In reality, I need a sub that starts in the directory where the file
calling/initiating the sub is saved in. From there, it looks for
(other) .xls files, if it doesn't find any, it will look in the first
directory it sees. From that directory, it will look for a .xls file,
if it finds one, it needs to return the path to that .xls file and add
it to the next available spot on sheet2 of the initiating file. From
there it will search the next directory for excel files or directories
and keep going. Until all directories have been searched and all
'excel' files have been reported for.

I don't entirely know if this makes any sense. I hope it does. It
seemed like it would be more difficult to explain, which leads me to
think I am missing something big.

Anyways this seems like it would be easier if I could 'chat' to someone
about this live over AIM or whatnot (because I may have other questions
as i am going). I don't suppose any excel experts have some sort of
chat handle/program that they can use while going about their business
(I don't want to be an inconvenience). If you don't want to give it out
publicly, please e-mail me with details ). Thanks in
advanced.

I would appreciate any assistance or ideas with the issues above as
well (on these forums). Thanks again!


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