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Taking the easy way out and asking you smart peeps :-)

I have a variable in VBA called "filename"  
The filename value will be something like  "Bob blah blah 10.15.xlsm"... But it might be a .xls file, either way the file extension is already part of the variable.

What i want is to save as    filename (without extenstion)  &  "More Words Here" & filename (only the original extension)
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Saurabh Singh TeotiaCommented:
You can use this to get the file name without extension which is:-

fname = Left(filename, InStrRev(filename, ".", -1) - 1)

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Now in the fname it will store the name of the file without extension..

Also not sure what do you meant by extension which im assuming the file name extension which you can pick up by this..

xtn = Right(filename, (Len(filename) - InStrRev(filename, ".", -1)) + 1)

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Saurabh...

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RayData AnalystAuthor Commented:
Sorry, was out for a long weekend :-)

Trying this today and bet it works!
RayData AnalystAuthor Commented:
Works perfect!

I converted it to one long string to use as the filename to save an updated copy of an exisiting/open file.

Left(filename, InStrRev(filename, ".", -1) - 1) & " - NEW ADDITION TO FILE NAME" & Right(filename, (Len(filename) - InStrRev(filename, ".", -1)) + 1)

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RayData AnalystAuthor Commented:
Delivering excellent results, as usual!
Saurabh Singh TeotiaCommented:
Thanks Ray.. Always happy to help.. :-)

Saurabh...
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