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Your best bet would be to incorporate some code to open the file on the
server and then check the version on the sheet here with the version on the
user's machine. (This would still mean a complete user refresh with the file
that incorporates code to check your master file on the server

The querying of sql server in Excel should not need code however, but your
code may be doing other stuff post import???
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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
DTHIS
www.nickhodge.co.uk


"Doctorjones_md" wrote in message
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Is there an easy way to accomplish the following?

Over the past 6 months I have made modification to an Excel Workbook that
resides on the File Server. I have added Field Names in the Final Version
(which coincide with Field Names on SQL Server) that don't exist in
earlier version of the Excel Workbook. Unfortunately, many users have
copied the Master Workbook from the File Server down to their C Drive, and
now the VBA code doesn't roll up the data correctly to SQL Server.

Here's that I'd like to be able to do -- is there an easy way to have SQL
Server query Excel and check to see if a specified version is being used
(say I have a worksheet named "version", and the latest version is use is
2007_02_08_07), and pop a Message Box to notify the user of an incorrect
version.

How would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance for any help with this one.