Open any Program from Excel

This free excel macro allows you to open any program on your computer from excel. You can open a media player, file viewer, image editor, internet browser, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, or any other program on your computer. This is a really useful macro to, in essence, combine excel's functionality with that of another program. The vba code below can be used on its own or integrated into an existing macro in order to open some other program on your computer.

This macro uses a Shell Command to open a program.

Note: To use this macro to open a program on your computer, you must enter the full file path to the program's executable file. So, you need to enter the file path from the harddrive through all the folders up to the file. Also, each executable file will end in a ".exe" file format; don't forget to include that extension in the macro as well.

To change the file path and extension to point to the location of your program's executable file, simply change this line of code within the excel macro Shell ("C:\TEST\TEST.exe"). Change the file path which is between the quotation marks to whatever your file path is.

Where to install the macro:  Module

Open any Program from Excel

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