Just a thought:
> If you wish ajust the setting for cetain files only, you can use the

The end result will be the same, but to me it would be better to say not
that it is changing the setting for that workbook but it is specifing the
action to take for that single opening of the workbook.

Set wb = Workbooks.Open(sPath & sName, Updatelinks:=0)

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Norman Jones" <normanjones@whereforartthou.com> wrote in message
news:OqQEQ6ovGHA.4160@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi Jim,
>
> As Don indicates in an adjacent post, you can change the application
> setting programmatically.
>
> If you wish ajust the setting for cetain files only, you can use the
> UpdateLinks argument to the Worbook's open method. This argument takes
> four values:
>
> 0 Doesn't update any references
> 1 Updates external references but not remote references
> 2 Updates remote references but not external references
> 3 Updates both remote and external references
>
> See VBA help on the Open method for more information.
>
>
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> Regards,
> Norman
>