Hi Richard,

>The name of an Adobe Acrobat file (withouth the extension) is recorded in the field DATA.FILENAME data type numeric.
>I want to launch Acrobat with the file open in Acrobat. If I know the filename the code that works is:
>! /n C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe C:\data\testreport.pdf
>
>Why doesn't this work?:
>! /n C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe 'C:\data\'+str(data.filename)+'.pdf'
>
>Acrobat launches, but tells me the file is not found.
>Thanks

Run command doesn't permit you to concatenate this way. Try this:

lsScript = "! /n  C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe C:\data\" + Alltrim(str(data.filename)) + ".pdf"
=ExecScript(lsScript)

Bye!