Hi,

The '.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False' error is being received in thi
case because the variable is set in a different private sub, so Privat
Sub btnCombine_Click() does not know what strFirstFileName is. I'v
copied your code and justed tweaked a bit:


Code
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PUBLIC STRFIRSTFILENAME AS STRIN

Private Sub btnCombine_Click()

Dim intLastrow

intLastrow = Cells(65536, 1).End(xlUp).Row

With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
"TEXT;" & strFirstFileName _
, Destination:=Cells(intLastrow + 1, 1))
.Name = "BENT 2 -Final0022"
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = True
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells
.SavePassword = False
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.TextFilePromptOnRefresh = False
.TextFilePlatform = 437
.TextFileStartRow = 1
.TextFileParseType = xlDelimited
.TextFileTextQualifier = xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote
.TextFileConsecutiveDelimiter = False
.TextFileTabDelimiter = True
.TextFileSemicolonDelimiter = False
.TextFileCommaDelimiter = True
.TextFileSpaceDelimiter = False
.TextFileColumnDataTypes = Array(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, _
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
.TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers = True
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False

End With

End Sub

Private Sub btnFirstFileName_Click()

strFirstFileName = Application.GetOpenFilename
txtFirstFileName.Text = strFirstFileName

End Su
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Hope this helps,



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