I'm trying to develop a bit of VBA that will check the date modified section on the file. I have found a bit of code online that uses the FileSystemObject to do this, but I run into a "Type Mismatch" error in VBA and was hoping someone could help.. Sub test() Dim FileLastModified As Variant MsgBox FileLastModified("S:\FILEPATHISHERE.xls") End Sub (naturally i have entered the actual filepath there!) Function FileLastModified(strFullFileName As String) Dim fs As Object, f As Object, s As String Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set f = fs.GetFile(strFullFileName) s = UCase(strFullFileName) & vbCrLf s = s & "Last Modified: " & f.DateLastModified FileLastModified = s Set fs = Nothing: Set f = Nothing End Function I have just added the Microsoft Scripting Runtime Reference, but this is still not working. Any ideas? Am I missing other required references? Thanks in advance Alex