Hi,

I am trying to setup procedures that perform some steps then run
whichever macro is passed to them as a string argument

the actual code leaving the STRING variable containing the macro and
its arguments blank is:

Sub SendMacroName()

UseMacroStringToRunMacro STRING

End Sub

Sub UseStringToRunMacro(STRING)

....PERFORMS SOME STEPS...

'runs the macro represented in STRING
Application.Run STRING

End Sub

This works fine in all but one case: when the macro to be run is in
another file and has arguments. the actual string value that would work
in such a case:

Application.Run "FILE CONTAINING MACRO TO RUN.xls!MACRO TO RUN",
"ARGUMENT 1", "ARGUMENT 2", etc

i can give STRING that exact value by either of the following code, but
neither work on the Application.Run STRING command

STRING = """FILE.xls!MACRO""" & ", " & """ARGUMENT 1""" etc
or
STRING = """FILE.xls!MACRO"", ""ARGUMENT 1"" etc

both result in the error message: method 'run' of object application
failed


if the macro to run were in the same file as the macro calling it
[UseStringToRunMacro] the following would work:

STRING = "'MACRO_NO_FILEPATH, "ARGUMENT 1", ETC '"

[notice the string is bracketed by single quotes]
but if the macro is in another file this doesn't work [and it is NOT
b/c the file containing the macro isn't referenced, i tried
"'FILE.xls!MACRO, "ARGUMENT 1", ETC '" [that produces a macro cannot be
found error]

if the macro to run were in another file but had no arguments the
following works:

STRING = "FILE.xls!MACRO"

my guess is it has something to do with extra quotation marks around
the string, or how to represent the file name when the macro has
arguments. i think what may be happening is the STRING is interpreted
as being the macro to run not as encompassing the name of the macro and
each of its arguments.

Thanks for your help,

Ian