Hi.

I have a button cmdStartProgram on a form. When this is clicked I want to
startup a .exe file local on my computer. What would be the correct VB code
to do this?

Mr. Smith

Check Access VB Help on the Shell command.

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HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)

Here is some code from Dev Ashish's site that will allow you to start any
registered application.

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0018.htm

Jack Doria