Thanks Leith . . . Your memory is correct, I am opening separage instances of Excel. I am using the code you gave me for opening all files where I directly open a workbook using the file name. Love it and it works great.

I have this one button though, that you helped me with to open any file, Excel or Word as examples, where I have selected the name of the file in a cell, with the path & file name one cell to the left..

I was hoping that I could modify the existing macro so it didn't have to be totally re-written. I don't think that the code you referenced will work for this application.

Do you need any other information to evaluate this?

P.S. I'll be sending you my eMail program this coming week. Just doing cleanup and decor. My beta test people love it.