Perhaps this is simplistic, but how about taking a cell is Excel, then
manually creating a hyperlink to the file, then have the VBA code run that
hyperlink?
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JMMach

"Cleber P. de Souza" wrote in message
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You can to test:
TaskID = Shell("C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\readme.txt", 1)

Cleber

"Chris" escreveu na mensagem
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I'd like to open PDF and RTF files from Excel. I've tried some codes
but don't work. Followings are my codes which DON'T WORK. Please give
me some advice.

For PDF:
TaskID = Shell("C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader
readme.txt,1")

For RTF:

Dim wrdApp As Word.Application
Dim wrdDoc As Word.Document
Set wrdApp = New Word.Application
Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(FileName)

I need to launch the application and the file. TKS!