Is it possible to open a differnt application form Excel?

I have a spreadsheet that imports data from an Access database. This
database needs to be refreshed before importing daqta so the spreadsheet is
current.

I'd like to be able to do this with one button click which opens the
database, runs the auto_exec macro, and closes the database.

Just to make it interesting, but database is in a different drive & directory.

Is this possible? How so?


Thanks in advance.