Using Wildcard on Workbooks.Open

[Guest]

I want to use a wildcard on the Workbooks.Open command, but it doesn't
recognize the wilcard character as being a wildcard but part of the filename.
I'm concatenating two string variables into the filename. Any idea if this
will work?

Code:
Workbooks.Open Filename:="\\Yucca\" & Name1 & "_" & Name2 & "*.xls"

 

[Jake Marx]

Hi Stever,

I want to use a wildcard on the Workbooks.Open command, but it doesn't
recognize the wilcard character as being a wildcard but part of the
filename. I'm concatenating two string variables into the filename.
Any idea if this will work?

Code:
Workbooks.Open Filename:="\\Yucca\" & Name1 & "_" & Name2 & "*.xls"

You can't use wildcards with the Open method - you'll have to determine the
exact filename. You could use the Dir$() function to ascertain the actual
filename given the wildcard-based one, then pass the actual filename to the
Open method.

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Regards,

Jake Marx
www.longhead.com


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