I open a rating workbook which, when a userform button is pressed,
opens another instance of excel and runs multiple workbooks that do
many calculations. When this is completed, i want the next part of the
rating code to remember the path for one of the two workbooks that are
left open in the other instance of excel.

When i try looking through the available workbooks, i get:
personal.xls
Book1.xls
rating.xls

These are the workbooks that are open in the 1st instance of excel.
How do i look at the workbooks in the 2nd instance.?
property listing.xls
summary.xls

I thought this code might do it, but just keeps looping through the
1st instance, without moving to the 2nd.
Code:
Do
Set XLAPP = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
If Not XLAPP Is Nothing Then
For Each wkbk In XLAPP.Workbooks
If wkbk.Name = "Property Listing - " &
UserForm2.ComboBox1.Value & ".xls" Then
wkbk.Saved = True
x = wkbk.Path
wkbk.Close
End If
Next wkbk
End If
Loop


So what i want to do is:
open my rating workbook
press the userform button
have a 2nd instance of excel open
have multiple workbooks open to do calculations, leaving only 2
workbooks remaining

so far so good

have x = the path of the propertylisting workbook

x is in the code of the rating workbook userform and i can't get to
read the workbooks that are in the other instance of excel.