grabbing cell content as a file path for VBA

Hi all,

Had a quick look and couldn't find anything like this that has been answered already.

I would like to do the following.

Background.

We have approx 30 technical claims handlers who each use a spreadsheet to record their individual caseloads with various dates etc. All these spreadsheets live in a communual folder on a network drive.
To assist the team manager I want to build something that will analyse each persons data for purposes of monthly 1 to 1's etc. That in itself is a doddle.
Due to Head Office and their silly rules I cannot do the obvious and add a worksheet in (don't even go into the why and why nots) so I plan on a standalone spreadsheet to copy across an individuals data and work things out there. (Again a doddle)
The team managers are not exactly excel savvy, so the idea is to automate as much as possibly using VBA and macro. What I plan is a dropdown box - they select the persons name, click a button and hey presto it all happens. (99% of that I can do)

The problem

I envisage a vlookup off the name in the dropdown box, the second column would contain the filepath and filename of that persons spreadsheet. So if I picked Josh I would get s:\filepath\josh.xls

What I don't know how to do in VBA is to say "take the contents of cell C1, and use that as the name of the spreadsheet to open

e.g. Workbooks.Open Filename:="S:\filepath\josh.xls."

what code do i put in so it reads C1 as the link and puts it in.


I hope that makes some kind of sense.


It is going to be as simple as

Workbooks.Open Filename:= cells(1,3).value ?






Many thanks in advance