thanks all and rick for the useful post
and sorry for the delay but i think the ms forum was stamped !!
paolo



"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

If assigned to a variable the executable program returns a Variant (Double)
representing the program's task ID if successful, otherwise it returns zero.
The task ID is a unique number that identifies the running program.

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Jacob (MVP - Excel)


"USH" wrote:

Hi all is there any difference between this..

Shell ("R:\provaclick.exe")

and this ..

X = Shell ("R:\provaclick.exe")

..? tx !