the problem is, that i'll have a database where the file has an id. if
someone changes the filename in an explorer window i woudn't get en event or
something to foward that change into my database and therefore loose my
connection(by name)...is there a way to bind the excel file somehow to the
database. do you have any souggestions?

thanks
J. Ahrens

"Chip Pearson" <chip@cpearson.com> wrote in message
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> What about the file name? Beyond that, you'd have to write some sort of
> encoding identifier. Excel doesn't provide anything.
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> "Jörgen Ahrens" <jahrens@community.nospam> wrote in message
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>> Hi all
>>
>> Is there a way to uniquly identify an excel-file? (like inode-id in unix)
>>
>> thanks for your help
>> J. Ahrens
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