Haven't heard from anyone else, but I have a solution that works pretty well
it seems.

I found a stand alone player SAFlashPlayer.exe at macromedia.com. I use the
SHELL command to start the player, passing the name of the file along as a
parameter. Starts up with no need for user intervention.

Suits my purposes but may not be the best method.

Chuck Waterfield

"Chuck Waterfield" wrote in message
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I'd like to launch macromedia flash SWF demos from within my Excel
workbook.

I've tried hyperlinks and I get the "some files can contain viruses"
warning
message. I don't want this...

I've tried the SHELL command from within VBA, but it won't automatically
launch a SWF file. I've been looking for something like a flash.exe
program
that I could call with SHELL and then have that launch my desired SWF
file,
but no luck so far.

Any ideas?

thanks,

Chuck Waterfield