I posted this by accident in the wrong newsgroup. Here is the repost.

I just turned an xls file into an xla file and am having some issues with my
code. The code snippet below is failing on: Windows(varfile1).Activate.
varfile1 is the name of the xla file. When it was an xls file I selected the
workbook, then selected a sheet in it, then selected a start cell and then
figured out what the used range was (I know I can also employ .UsedRange but
will ignore for now). However, now that its an xla file I cannot seem to a
get to my start cell (within a sheet in the xla file) by selecting the xla
file and its sheet. The goal is to conitnue to correctly pass the right
values to the two variables LRow1 and LCol1

As I cannot select hidden objects, I need a way to do this. Or am I forced
to change this all around and used the .UsedRange property?

Windows(varfile1).Activate
Sheets(varsheet1).Select
Range("A1").Select
Range(Selection, ActiveCell.SpecialCells(xlLastCell)).Select
With Selection
.MergeCells = False
End With
Range("A1").Select
LRow1 = ActiveCell.SpecialCells(xlLastCell).Row
LCol1 = ActiveCell.SpecialCells(xlLastCell).Column