launching another application from within excel

[aschouela]

I am developping an application using VBA withing the Excel environment. I am using Mac OS X. I am having trouble launching a seperate application from within my application. I have tried using the Shell command but I cannot seem to get it to work.

any suggestions?

 

[RobBroekhuis]

What have you tried that hasn't worked?
Rob

 

[aschouela]

I have written the following code. This is the example that was given in the Help file.

Dim RetVal
RetVal = Shell("Macintosh HD:Applications:Calculator", vbNormalFocus) ' Run Calculator.

Are their any settings that have to be set in order for this to work. I have checked the path. It is correct.

Adam