Tod,
Application level events may be the answer:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/AppEvent.htm

Used in Personal.xls or an add-in.

NickHK

"Tod" wrote in message
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Does anyone know of a way I can have a log generated of each time an
instance of Excel is created? I'd like to track when it was created,
what it was used for (workbook name, etc.).


tod