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May 9, 2006

I have a problem with paths and filenames with spaces.
If the the excel file containing the macro file is opened from explorer rather than from within excel, the path is incorrect. Therefore I use the following

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ChDir varPath

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Dim varPath As String
Dim fPath As String
varPath = ThisWorkbook.Path
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fPath = varPath & " emp"
MsgBox fPath & "test.bat"
Shell fPath & "test.bat"

I get the message box: e:local data tables emp est.bat
I get the error: Runtime Error 5, Invalid procedure call or argument.

Without having to rename the path structure so that it doesn't have spaces (which isn't always possible), how can I get this to work?

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