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Wildcards in a File name

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    Exclamation Wildcards in a File name

    Hey all

    I have some code that lookes through a folder to find a file. the thing is that the start of the file name is the a date so will change each week but the end of the file name is always the persons name.
    I want to have a macro to open the file, how can i do this using a wildcard so that the macro will work each time it changes.

    the code i have now is

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    that doesnt seam to work. do you have to put the wild card in differently.

    thanks

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    Re: Wildcards in a File name

    I think you might find it simpler to use the open file dialog to allow selection of the file
    Hope that helps.

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    Re: Wildcards in a File name

    I want to get the data from multiple files and dont really want the user to have to do much. basicaly i want to open a workbook copy the data to another workbook, close it and then open another 1 and copy the data to the same workbook and add it to the other data. i have to do this about 10 times. is there another way to do it?

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