Command prompt?

[DOSHelp]

Is there a way/command to have Word 2000 open the DOS
prompt?

Thanks

M

 

[Martin Seelhofer]

Hi there

On NT, 2K, XP:

Shell "cmd.exe"

On 9x (not sure about this one):

Shell "command.com"


Cheers,
Martin

 

[DOSHelp]

Great! Now...how would I have it run behind the scenes, or
minimized? And then how would I get it to automatically
close?

Thanks

M

 

[Mark Tangard]

M,

You give it one of the 'windowstyle' arguments. (Check the help under
'Shell' for all the choices and syntax.) What you'd want here is either
vbMinimizedFocus or vbMinimizedNoFocus. Closing automatically I'm not
sure you can do from VBA, but it should be a simple matter (ooh, famous
last words?) to have the Shell statement run a batch file instead of a
single DOS command, and have that batch file end in 'EXIT'.

 

[DOSHelp]

Should've spaced a little more and I'da had it. Thanks for
your everyone's help.

M