Macro to open and close all files in a folder and sub folders

**BillDoor** · 12-21-2012, 05:35 AM

Hi

I have the following to open all files in a specific folder

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But want I really need is for it to also look in the sub folders and open all those too, I also would like for it to then close them all.

Is this something that can be done?

thanks

**JBeaucaire** · 12-22-2012, 05:25 AM

Like so, you need a macro to feed in a folder path to the main macro which opens all the files in that path, then searches for folders IN that path and calls itself again, deeper and deeper recursively until it runs out of files/folders. This also shows you one way to close the files you've opened.

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**BillDoor** · 12-24-2012, 06:02 AM

Hi JBeaucaire
Thanks for this, but it doesn't seem to go through the sub-folders, it will cycle through and Excel fils in the top level, but doesn't seem to go into the sub levels

The set up is around 4 sub folders with about 10 files in each, there are no other sub folders lower down, these 4 all sit in the original top level

**JBeaucaire** · 12-24-2012, 11:42 AM

It appears the sub loops were not including the final "/" in the path string, so I added a tweak above in the code to fix that. Tested and working on my system.