Hi Jim
have a look at the Shell comannd in the VBA help

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

"Jim Simpson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I'm using Win98 and Excel 2000. From a VBA Excel macro, I want to
call a
batch file (gtst.bat) which calls a Perl script, then I want to
return to
the Excel VBA macro. Can someone please tell me if it is possible to
do
this?

Thanks, Jim