VBA help needed

I'm decently familiar with vba and macros, etc, but I'm stumbling on this one and endless googling isn't helping.

I want to have Excel open automatically, say at 2am every night (which I probably will do with Microsoft Scheduler unless someone knows of a better way), then open a specific file and refresh the query in that file via a macro, and then save and close the file (and even Excel if possible).

A related concern, though, is that Excel will always open this file when Excel is opened, even during the day during normal use, which I'd rather avoid...

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

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shg, my apologies for answering please soft delete!