Fred,
There's this:
http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/eee/eee002.txt

NickHK

"Fred" <leavemealone@home wrote in message
...
If I have a shortcut that has has a workbook as a target then can I also
pass a number to the workbook from the shortcut by have a parameter after
the target file name?
for example: if I have in the target of a shortcut
C:\book1.xls "1234"
then is there anyway for me to retreive that number (1234) during the
workbook.open event.

Thanks for any help.
Fred