Having studied this today until my head began to spin, I fear there may be something else going on. I was able to use the process to access other documents that began with a number. I think it may have something to do with the dash character as replacing that with a hyphen (Chr(45)) also allowed the file to be processed. I will investigate further, but in the meantime I will have to go and lie down in a darkened room

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