I am opening EXCEL through another application. The file that I am opening has an Auto_Open macro in it that is needed for this application. Excel is opened by the application by noting the "Excel.exe" path.

There will be subsequent openings of different Excel files in sequence that have sequenced numbers in their file names. Each new file will look to see if the previous one is open, and if it is it will close the file.

I don't want to put the first file to open in XLSTART because I don't want it opening every time I open Excel since the Auto_Open macro is long and I have to wait for it to finish. The files to be opened will be in a subfolder of XLSTART.

I have several other related programming questions to this post, should they all go in separate threads?

Thanks,

Danny,
Toronto, Ontario