macro to open note pad from excel

[icebreaker914]

Can anyone help? I am trying to create a macro that opens "Notepad" from an
excel spreadsheet. Is that possible?

Thanks
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icebreaker914

[Paul B]

icebreaker914, try this,

Sub Run_Notepad()
Run Shell("C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE", 1)
End Sub


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Paul B
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"icebreaker914" <icebreaker914@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone help? I am trying to create a macro that opens "Notepad" from
an
> excel spreadsheet. Is that possible?
>
> Thanks
> --
> icebreaker914