Excel VBA can't open Workbook

Question

First: I\'m using Excel 2007, but the code has to work for Excel 2003 as well.

My problem is the following: I need to access cells in a different workbook, which may

Answer 1

I would suggest that you open you the new workbook upon opening the calling workbook, in the worbook_open event.

You then store the new workbook reference in a global variable.

Then the function called by your cell uses the said global variable instead of trying to open a new workbook. This way you go around the limitations.

PS : Of course global variable are to be avoided, some sort of container would be better than a direct global variable.