Automate Workbook Refresh

Hi All,
Does anyone have a way to automatically refresh a workbook and save it to a file folder? We have a workbook that is highly formatted and has multiple queries on one worksheet so the reporting agent as I understand it won't help me, but let me know if I am wrong. Any ideas will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Soniya,
I saw your original posting with this question. I did not respond to that posting because this is really not something that can be done in VB.
With VBA in Excel, you can schedule a routine to run (the command is Application.OnTime, then give the time for the subroutine to run and the name of the subroutine). But, this has 2 problems for your application:
1. this allows only "time", not "date + time"
2. the schedule stays in Excel memory; which means it gets lost if Excel is closed.
I would think that using scheduling within BW is the right way to do this. But, I am not an expert on that subject.
If the workbook is stored on a local or LAN drive vs. on the BW server, then the only other option that comes to mind is Windows scheduling (and set up the workbook so that your macro will kick off automatically when the workbook opens).
Here is a link that gives instructions on how to use Windows scheduler:
http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm
Hope this helps.
- Pete

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