Opening .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm with wildcard

jlieu

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Hello, I have code that will open up a couple thousand excel files over the years one at a time and run some code. However, the extension has changed over the years. I was wondering is there a way to have excel open up all the different file types with variable file names. My guess so far is something along the lines of

Code:
'possibility 1: 
myExtension = "*.xlsm" Or "*.xls" or "*.xlsx"
'possibility 2: 
myExtension = like "*.xls"

'my ending code using extentions
myFile = Dir(myPath & myExtension)
 

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cool, it worked perfectly. Didn't know you can have a double ended wildcard. Thank you!
 
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