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

The workaround of putting my routine into a separate macro in the workbook module, and calling that macro from the Workbook_BeforeSave code, seems to have done the trick.

I've had a similar issue, but in my case it's a "Workbooks.Open(filename)" command at the start of a small routine embedded in Workbook_BeforeSave. VBA just skips right over the line of code as if it weren't there, it doesn't even report an Err.Code or Err.Description.

The only clue for me was that it's part of the Workbook_BeforeSave routine, and the limits with Functions above seem to indicate that could be a possible cause. So I dug around further to find more details.

It seems that Workbook_BeforeSave disables Excel from opening more files, and I guess there's a good reason for doing that, since the File > Open option is still visible in the File menu, but it can't be clicked. Strangely, the Open toolbar icon/button still works, and so whilst I can manually open the file from there, I wonder if it's because it's impossible to call this action from VBA code and that's why they allowed it?