Help with Shell to Acrobat Reader
 

I wish to shell to adobe acrobat from within excel and because the workbook
may be on different standalone workstations I would like to use a variable
to store the program and location associated with .pdf files

I'm stumped ... please help

Regards and TIA

Help with Shell to Acrobat Reader
 

Try something like:


Sub Macro1()
x = Shell("cmd.exe /c C:\Userguide.pdf", 1)
End Sub


Note that by shelling to cmd.exe you don't need to open the application
directly.
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Gary's Student


"Jimbo" wrote:

I wish to shell to adobe acrobat from within excel and because the workbook
may be on different standalone workstations I would like to use a variable
to store the program and location associated with .pdf files

I'm stumped ... please help

Regards and TIA