Workbook opens but I still get a VBA Subscript out of range error

Question

I\'m trying to open a workbook through my marco script and I have this error recurring everytime I try to open a workbook. The problem I\'m facing is that when I use

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Answer 1

If you want to use a workbook opened with vba, you need to Set a reference to it, like so

Dim wb as Workbook
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(string of path and filename)

Then you can go on referencing the Workbook object, wb and use its methods and refer to its properties.