>>SORRY
>>
>>Sorry I forgot to say that the files in the attach directory will all have different names
>>
>>But each day (or each time my code is run) one of them is moved to the attachxls directory with a name of attach.xslx for further processing
>
>

>lcFileName = SYS(2000,"c:\citisprint\sttach\*.*")
>
>TRY
>  ** Trying to erase c:\citisprint\attachxls\attach.xslx
>  ERASE ("c:\citisprint\attachxls\attach.xslx")
>CATCH
>ENDTRY
>
>RENAME ("c:\citisprint\attach\"+lcFileName) TO ("c:\citisprint\attachxls\attach.xslx")
>** Process c:\citisprint\attachxls\attach.xslx here
>

Will try this tomorrow morning - thanks again for help