note jagdish.eashwar Is it possible to read an excel file without opening it? I have written a small script for reading several excel files in turn. Each of these excel files have a workbook_open macro which puts out a message. Because of this, running the script is very tedious. I have to keep pressing the enter key or click the ok button to get the msgbox out of the way whenever an excel file is opened by the script. 153486 153486