Open Access File From Excel

Todd Bardoni

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The following code "works", but when Access opens and tries to swith to the specified file I get a message from Access that says something about it does not recognize the commandline. Any ideas?

Code:
Sub AccessDatabase_Execute()
    Dim taskID As Double, myPath As String, myFile As String
    On Error GoTo errorhandler
    myPath = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE"
    myFile = ThisWorkbook.path & "\AMOS Item Master.mdb"
    taskID = Shell(myPath + " " + myFile, vbNormalFocus)
    Exit Sub
errorhandler:
    MsgBox "Cannot find the exe file to open this program.", vbCritical
End Sub
 

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