>What is the best way to open an Excel spreadsheet from within VB?
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>I am using getobject which has worked fine up until now, but when the path of the xls file has a space in it, it just crashes on me.
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>How do I do this correctly?

It works correctly!!! See this sample:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim objX As Object

    Set objX = GetObject("d:\emoreau\test space\test.xls")
    objX.Application.Visible = True
    objX.Parent.Windows(1).Visible = True
End Sub