Can I do this? Change a name of a file without opening it?

JasonC71

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If I have the full filepath to a workbook set to a variable...can I change the name of that workbook with VBA WITHOUT opening the workbook and resaving it?

Or another way to think about it...say you have a workbook sitting on the desktop..you click once on the name, and windows will then let you type in a new name for the file...I would like to do the same thing via VBA..

Thanks All,

Jason
 

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