>>Make sure you look at the help for RUN. There are some options that can help you get the results you're looking for. You may need to use RUN /N to run a windows program.
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>I've seen the help for that. Talk about complicated! Well, all I can do is give it a shot. I don't have the program to run, yet, so I can't do anything right now.
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>>Yep, anything inside will be interpreted as a an HTML tag by your browser. If it doesn't understand the tag it will usually ignore it.
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>I'd better be careful of that. I put "actions" in them. In that case it was {Hangs head in shame}, referring to the fact that I didn't check help before asking my question. :)
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>Thanks,

Michelle,

There are several ways to execute another windows program (via the API). If RUN works, and does what you need to do, that may be the best. Look also at the numbers that you can add to the /N switch. These will let you control the window state of the application.

BTW, as far as DDE goes, I believe it's tied into Windows messaging services, which means, I believe, that it won't be going away anytime soon. I used it a lot back in FPW 2.6 to retrieve data from spreadsheets without problems.

hth,