[AccessD] Run Excel From Within Access

You need to quote the program path because it has spaces in it.
   
 Application.RunQQ( "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
Office\Office11\Excel.exe") & " "  & strFile
 
Alternatively, use ShellExecute() and you don't need to worry about the path to Excel on the 
machine you are running on.  


Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "SHELL32.DLL" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal 
hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
       ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal 
nShowCmd As Long) As Long

...
ShellExecute Application.hWndAccessApp, "Open", strFile, "", "", vbNormalFocus


-- 
Stuart


On 26 May 2012 at 21:08, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> Last week I posted a question about how to do this. In the interim I've
> worked most of it out. I can create the XLS file, and export the data to
> it, but can't make the last step work. Once the file has been created and
> written to, I want Excel to open and open the file too. I've tried various
> syntaxes, including:
> 
> <vba>
> Public Sub RunExcel(strFile As String)
>     Application.Run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
> Office\Office11\Excel.exe " & strFile
>     Application.Run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
> Office\Office11\Excel.exe " & Q(strFile)
>     Application.Run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
> Office\Office11\Excel.exe " & QQ(strFile)
> End Sub
> 
> Public Function Q(str As String)
>     Q = Chr(39) & str & Chr(39)
> End Function
> 
> Public Function QQ(str As String)
>     QQ = Chr(34) & str & Chr(34)
> End Function
> </vba>
> 
> (Incidentally, I included the two utility functions because they are
> enormously convenient, so feel free to copy them and use them. They're good
> for wrapping strings that might contain single or double quotes, for
> example.)
> 
> All three calls fail with the message, the only difference being whether
> the filename is wrapped in quotes or not.
>      Microsoft Access can't find the procedure 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office11\Excel.exe
>      "c:\temp\Customers.xls".'
> 
> Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
> TIA,
> -- 
> Arthur
> Cell: 647.710.1314
> 
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