Good afternoon, all. Thanks for the taking the time to review my question. I thought that this should be easy, but I'm not able to find anything in either Google or Bing: I'm trying to open an Excel spreadsheet with VBA code in a 2010 MS Access db, but I want it to be a Read-Only copy of the spreadsheet. I've simply used Application.FollowHyperlink in the past, but I can't seem to find a parameter to open my referenced spreadsheet as a read-only copy. I apologize if this has already been addressed elsewhere; I couldn't find anything. If it's of any help, the path for the spreadsheet in question is "R:\Customer Contact Center\CS Assistance Documents\Exclusive and Incentivized Mail Order.xlsx". Any help will be appreciated!