Thankyou, I'll give it a try and take a look at the book sometime. It sounds like the automation chapter would be helpful. I used a work around by doing the following (found on the THREAD in the API section). This opens just about anything you have a file association for.


DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN "Shell32.dll" ;
INTEGER hwnd, ;
STRING lpVerb, ;
STRING lpFile, ;
STRING lpParameters, ;
STRING lpDirectory, ;
LONG nShowCmd


* Open Access DATABASE FILE
=Shellexecute(0,"Open","c:\temp\myfile.mdb","","",1)