Reference Range("").value in another workbook [Resolved]

Alright, I have done this a billion times before but for some reason I cannot figure out what is going wrong.

I am not able to grab the value from a cell using the workbook name, sheet name and cell address like below:

Code:

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MsgBox Workbooks("book1").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("$A$1").Value

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Can someone please point out my moronic mistake?

Code:

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MsgBox Workbooks("book1.xls").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("$A$1").Value

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God, what an idiot.

Yeah, .xls

Ever had one of those days?