Thanks for the help. The create object worked for me
instead of the shell command. Guess that's what happens
when a newbie tries to program.

Thanks again
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I found the same problem runnning your script from a
VBS. After some
hacking I went into the registry he

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\comman d

and renamed the Command key to Commandx so that
the "default" command was
used. After that the file opened from the script. Not
much of a solution I
know.

An alternative from a VBS is using automation:

Dim XL
Set XL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
XL.Workbooks.Open "c:\Book1.xls", 3
XL.Visible = True

Whether this is a viable alternative for your purposes I
don't know.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP


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