Hi,

Try it without the brackets - it seems to work with me. I have full adobe
though, but i dont see why that should make too much of a difference.

i used

Shell "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe C:\Documents
and Settings\My Profile\My Documents\mypdf.pdf", vbNormalFocus

HTH

Mark

"bigdaddy3" wrote:

With the code below i can open adobe acrobat 7 from within excel with a macro
but what i want to do is open a particular adobe pdf file from my documents
folder i
added the code in brackets , adobe opened but said file not found. Any help
appreciated

Shell "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe ( C:\Documents
& Settings\My Name\My Documents\MyFile.pdf)",vbNormalFocus

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BD3