Open file when I don't know name

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I am trying to automate a process where I download orders from a web site in an Excel spreadsheet, then copy the transactions to another sheet which has macros that reformat the data and save them as a fixed-length text file. Problem is - I don't know what the file name is going to be (it is different every time you download).

If I know what folder to look in, is there a way using VBA to read in the file name and save to a variable that I can use to open the file? I plan on only having one file in this folder at any given time - I plan to have my routine clean up after itself when I am done. I figure it will probably be easier to write the routine if I know that I can just look in the folder and grab whatever Excel file it sees out there. I'm just not sure how to go about writing it.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

Alan
 

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Alan

Only 1 file in the folder?

Always the same folder?
Code: 
strFolder = "C:\TheFolder\"
 
strFileName = Dir(strFolder & "*.*")
 
Set wbOpen = Workbooks.Open(strFolder & strFileName)
 
' rest of code
 
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Thanks for the quick reply, Norie. This should work nicely although I probably won't have a chance to test it until the first of the week. I'll let you know then how it works out.
 
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