icebreaker914, try this,

Sub Run_Notepad()
Run Shell("C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE", 1)
End Sub


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"icebreaker914" wrote in message
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Can anyone help? I am trying to create a macro that opens "Notepad" from
an
excel spreadsheet. Is that possible?

Thanks
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