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Shell Command

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Sam74

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I am having problems using the Shell command to run winword.exe with a filename as an argument. If the filename has spaces in it Word cannot find it. Is there a way around this? I have tried using quotes around the filename with no success.

eg. RetVal = Shell("winword.exe c:\My Documents\test.doc",1)
 
Shell("winword.exe ""c:\My Documents\test.doc""",1)

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