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Starting Microsoft Applications from VB

Bob

2004-09-29, 3:55 pm

I need to start Microsoft Word from a VB application. What is the proper way
to do this. Also what if Word is not installed on the client computer (Is a
message returned).

Dick Grier

2004-09-29, 3:55 pm

Hi,

You can use the ShellExecute API. If you specify the path and filename of
your Word doc, Windows will start up whatever application (usually Word)
that has been associated with this document type.

Dick

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