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You also can't open two spreadsheets that have the same filename. I'm sure that's led to a helpdesk call or two.
I lost a lot of respect for Microsoft when I first saw that issue. It's such an easy to avoid limitation. Like probably a similar level of difficulty to remove that limitation than to write the error message explaining it, unless it's more of a spaghetti mess than I'm expecting it to be.
It’s to do with the ability to work with data across all open workbooks:
You can reference
[Workbook.xlsx]Sheet1!B2but if you have two excel workbooks open, both namedWorkbook.xlsxwhich one should be used?So throw an error at runtime on that macro, most workbooks aren't the target of a macro