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You also can't open two spreadsheets that have the same filename. I'm sure that's led to a helpdesk call or two.
I lost a lot of respect for Microsoft when I first saw that issue. It's such an easy to avoid limitation. Like probably a similar level of difficulty to remove that limitation than to write the error message explaining it, unless it's more of a spaghetti mess than I'm expecting it to be.
It’s to do with the ability to work with data across all open workbooks:
You can reference
[Workbook.xlsx]Sheet1!B2
but if you have two excel workbooks open, both namedWorkbook.xlsx
which one should be used?If you want to reference other files, you should use a less ambiguous way to refer to them. Like a relative path or full absolute path. The fact that that weakness is because of a half-baked feature like that actually makes me lose even more respect.
Edit: thanks for the info though, it does add some missing context.
Whichever one has the smallest relative path to the workbook using it? How does it find the workbook if it isn't open already?
It doesn’t.
So throw an error at runtime on that macro, most workbooks aren't the target of a macro