Obtaining data from several excel files

Hi there
I am very new to VB but I need advice.
I would like to write some VB code that I can point to a directory (and it's subdirectories) to identify the excel files in there and pull fields out of each file, into a new excel file. The fields will be in the same location in each file.
What is the best way to do this? Is there a script out there that already does this?
What I want to avoid is having someone have to manually open up and copy each of these fields to a new file (there are over 500 excel sheets).

thanks for your help in advance!
melyss

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Is there a script out there that already does this?

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dunno search in code bank or google

myfile = Dir(mypath & "\*.xls")

will return the first xls file in mypath folder

i think
workbooks.open mypath & "\" & myfile
will open it for you

you can then in a do loop
myfile = Dir
find the next xls file
and open with the same command as above
when myfile = "", no more xls files in folder

start on that and post again whhen you get stuck or when you are ready to find out about the sub folder

pete