Hello all. I have a puzzling problem. I have a spreadsheet that has in one column a list of paths to .xls files, among other file types. I need a macro that will open each of these files, get the page ...

It's been quite a while since I've played with word VBA, but I'm pretty sure you can specify a "read only" attribute when you open a file, which should fix this problem (if that's the problem).

Once upon a time, Visual Basic macros were one of the prevailing forms of malware. Visual Basic for Applications (or VBA) is used to automate functions, and make programs like the Word and Excel much ...