thats part of what i want the 2nd part is once i open the telnet program
(procomm plus) i need to tell it to run a particular script and copy the
result back to excel.i have over 600 ipaddress in the network and i am
looking to automate the process

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Just hyperlink to the program and click the link:

In some cell, enter something like:

=HYPERLINK("file:///C:\test\telnet.exe","Telnet") and click the link

Of course, you would modify this to refer to the proper folder on your
computer.
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200829


"calvin" wrote:

i need to launch a telnet program from excel and get the result

i have a bunch of ip address that i used to telnet into and run a script
file, i want to link both files together