Workbooks.Open Method in VBA

Solution 1:

Filename is relative to the current Excel directory (which is different from the directory in which an opened document is).

You change the current directory by using ChDir "x:\new\path".

But what you actually want to do is:

Workbooks.Open Filename:=EnsureSlash(ThisWorkbook.Path) & "myTest.xls", ReadOnly:=True

, where EnsureSlash is your custom function that appends a backslash (\) to the end of the string, if it's not already there (because ThisWorkbook.Path ends with a slash when the path is the root directory, and doesn't otherwise).

Solution 2:

You might try using ThisWorkbook.Path to make an absolute path. It returns the folder path of the workbook running the macro (excluding the filename). Something like this should work:

Workbooks.Open Filename:=ThisWorkbook.Path & "\myTest.xls", ReadOnly:=True

Make sure to include a backslash, since the workbook path doesn't end with one.