I think you've lost me. When I ran the code my video file played as an
embedded file on the Excel worksheet, and not as a separate file in Media
Player. I'm using Win2K Pro and Excel XP.

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Vasant


"teepee" wrote in message
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"Vasant Nanavati" <vasantn *AT* aol *DOT* com wrote in message
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This worked for me:

Sub PlayIt()
Dim Mfile As Object
Set Mfile = Worksheets("Results").OLEObjects("Object 6928")
Mfile.Verb
End Sub

Heh thanks for trying. it's appreciated.
That one opened it but as a completely separate file using my normal
default
player- not with the embedded windows media player as I need it to. You
see
the windows media player timer position is one of the inputs to the
spreadsheet 8-)

Oh well - back to the drawing board....