Re: Opening an Excel Spreadsheet

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From: Paul R. Sadowski [MVP] (sadowski_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:53:58 -0400

"Matthias Tacke" <Matthias.Tacke@web.de> wrote in message
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> "Paul R. Sadowski [MVP]" wrote:
>>"Matthias Tacke" <Matthias.Tacke@web.de> wrote in message
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>>> Excel.exe _should_ be in the apppath, so no need to include it.
>>
>>What you mean is starting based on file type.
>
> Paul, I'm shure I meant this registry entry "App Paths" ;-)
>
> reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
> Paths\excel.exe"
>
> This allows you to execute excel.exe without specifying the path and
> without the location of excel.exe being in the env var path.

OK, cool! I get it now. It works with the START command only. You can tell I
don't use START much (at all!). :)

Thanks... 

-- 
Paul R. Sadowski
Microsoft MVP (MSN Client)
http://www.paulsadowski.com/

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