http://www.rlmueller.net/PingComputers.htm

At this link you can find three routines that ping remote computers,
depending on your Windows version. The code is VBScript, but I think it would
be easy to convert it to VBA.

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urkec


"Garry Douglas" wrote:

"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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I missed the bit about the text file.

You might consider this alternative approach
http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/show...highlight=ping

Thanks. I love the way there is never one absolutely definitive way of
achieving the end result. For a non-programmer this is very reassuring :-)

Garry