open notepad

[joey o.]

Nothing fancy, I just want to open notepad visually. Is it something like:

Shell.exe "C:\WinNT\notepad.exe"?

[YoungBuck]

Shell "C:\WinNT\Notepad.exe"

[HeSaidJoe]

Path may vary and to show it use vbNormalFocus, otherwise it will open minimized by default

Shell "C:\Windows\Notepad.exe", vbNormalFocus

[YoungBuck]

To get the accurate windows directory check out this thread.

[HeSaidJoe]

You don't need to know the path if you use shelldef
Option Explicit
'Use Shelldef to open a file with the associated app

Private Declare Function ShellEx Lib "shell32.dll" Alias _
"ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As Any, _
ByVal lpDirectory As Any, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
'
Sub ShellDef(strFileName)
    Dim x As Long
    x = ShellEx(Form1.hwnd, "open", strFileName, "", "", 1)
End Sub

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim strYourFileVariable$
    strYourFileVariable = "Notepad.exe"
    ShellDef strYourFileVariable
End Sub

If Notepad.exe is located in the default Windows directory, you don't even need to include the directory.

Shell "Notepad.exe", 1

[jbart]

This should work fine too. You can also pass the name of a file to open in NotePad.

Shell "NotePad " & sFileName, vbNormalFocus