You can run excel from the Start - Run window optio by typing the following

excel c:\temp\book1.xls

This wil work from the cmd intepreter. It is more common these days to use
a Workbook_Open macro then to use the auto run feature.

"OlieH" wrote:

I wish to run an excel macro from the task manager. I have the Workbook with
an auto_open, but the macro will not execuite at any security level(so I
don't think that is the problem) The macro seems to take the first "A" as an
end of file.
If I could put the macro in a text file and run it with the command
interpreter that wold also work.

Any help in this regard is greatly appreciated.