Excel Timer
Opens Excel files, waits for timer countdown, then closes the files.
OpenExcel is a command line utility program that provides the ability to open one or multiple Excel files, wait a specified number of seconds, and then close the workbooks. An alternative option is to use TASKKILL, however that approach closes all instances of Excel. The advantage of OpenExcel is that it only closes the specific workbooks.
OpenExcel is useful for Excel files that implement VBA scripts with the events Workbook_Open and Workbook_BeforeClose. For example, the Workbook_Open event...