Opening an existing Word File from within Excel
 

I have some code that opens a word mail merge file from a macro within
Excel. It all works fine when all the files are on my hard drive. But
when I move them to our shared drive, it gives me an error. Here is the
code:

Sub MergeToWord()

ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="MyData", RefersTo:="=Sheet1!" _
& Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Address
Shell "C:\Program Files\Microsoft office\Office11\winword.exe
F:\Shared Files\...\...\wordfile.doc"

End Sub

The line in red is the one that is running into the error. The error
message says "Word experienced an error trying to open the file." Does
anyone know why this occurs? Is it possibly something with the file
permissions on our shared drive? Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
AJO


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