Help with opening a file

Hi

At present I've got a programme that creates a file and then saves it (according to some name the user has created) on the desktop. What I want is to be able to open the document directly through a command button on the main form, I've tried a couple of different ways but each time I'm creating some sort of error! Any help with opening up the document would be great.
Thanx.

[VBfreak]

If you are hard coding the document's location there shouldn't be any problem but if you can save the document in different places, you should use an .ini file that contains the path that should be read when you click that button. GOOD LUCK

[Aaron Young]

How do you want to Open it?
Into your own Text/RTF Box or In an External Program, like Notepad?

External Program..

Private cmdOpen_Click()
    'sFileName is the Path and FileName of the Saved File you want to Open with Notepad.
    Shell "Notepad.exe " & sFileName
End Sub

Into a Text/RTF Box..

Private Sub cmdOpen_Click()
    Dim iFile As Integer
    Dim sData As String
    
    iFile = FreeFile
    Open "TheFile.txt" For Input As iFile
    sData = Input(LOF(iFile), iFile)
    Close iFile
    Text1 = sData
End Sub

If the File is too big for the Input() Function..

Private Sub cmdOpen_Click()
    Dim iFile As Integer
    Dim sData As String
    Dim sChunk As String
    Dim lChunk As Long
    Dim lFileLen As Long

    iFile = FreeFile
    Open "C:\TheFile.txt" For Binary Access Read As iFile
    lFileLen = LOF(iFile)
    lChunk = 64000
    While Loc(iFile) < lFileLen
        If Loc(iFile) + lChunk > lFileLen Then lChunk = lFileLen - Loc(iFile)
        sChunk = Space(lChunk)
        Get #iFile, , sChunk
        sData = sData & sChunk
    Wend
    Close iFile
End Sub

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Aaron Young
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Still can't get the document to open, I've inclosed the code that saves the document.


Public Sub SaveFile(sOutputFile As String)

Dim n As Long
Dim hFile As Long


hFile = FreeFile

Open sOutputFile For Output As #hFile

For n = 1 To UBound(sAllFiles)
Print #hFile, sAllFiles(n)


Next

close hfile

End Sub

What am I doing wrong?