Use the Shell statement.

Shell "notepad.exe 'h:\test\text.txt'", vbNormalFocus



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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"Michael Vaughan" <michael@mvaughan.net> wrote in message
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> I inserted an object into my Excel workbook. It will boot up
> my NOTEPAD.EXE program. Is there a way to execute it and have
> it automatically load a file name into Notepad??? I want to
> execute notepad, and then automatically load a .bat file into
> it so that I can edit it.
>
> Hope you can help... Michael
>
>