I have an excel file that I have to open and update at the top of each hour. I open it and toss in some data and hit save. On save it runs some macros and normalizes the data. Then I have to close it and run an access database that formats the data, looks up current goals, and gives a bunch of % to goal data in a nice form that is easy for the masses to look at. Is there an easy way to add a macro (or some thing like that) that will open the database AFTER excel has closed? I was thinking of a bat file but not sure if there was a better way. Both the excel file and the database go into the same folder and location on each users computer if that changes anything.