"John Stubbings" <anna.riceDELETE-THIS@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> I have about 100 xls files that I want to extract three columns from
> each and combine into one file.
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> Any ideas?
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The only way that I can think of is via VBA.
Put all the files in a single folder and loop through each one copying the
columns that you need.