Additionally the solution may be if you open the file without updating references and/or without running a macro. Check out OPEN syntax.

>Hi Yuri,
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>Thanks very much for your time. The reason I would like to do it this way, because the excel file has code written for workbook_open, and it unnecessarily runs when the file opens, even though my motive was only to find out whether a particular page existed.
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>I will try your code shortly.
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>Regards,
>
>Steve.