how to detect if a .xls is in use

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Marc Miller

Does anyone know how to dectect if an excel spreadsheet it in
use before using workbooks.open(path&file) ?

I can't seem to find anything in the search engines or help files
for this.

TIA,
Marc Miller
 
Marc,

You could try to open the file using a filestream if it returns an in use
error you know it is currently opened by another process(Excel).

Dan
 
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