Hi Ian, Why do you want to use the shell? There is a launch command, which lets you launch a document with an application:
launch "path/to/document.xls" with "path/to/application" -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Get the extIco2Png external for LiveCode here http://qery.us/1w6 On 21 apr 2012, at 11:19, Ian McKnight wrote: > Hi > > I have a stack which produces a set of tables which I want to export to > excel. > > What I would like: > User clicks a button in LC and excel opens with the tables in place. > > What I have: > User clicks a button, saves the file to disc, double clicks the file on > disc which opens in Excel > > I can get the shell command to open excel on my machine but I don't know > how to get LC to open excel with the file. > > > Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated > > -- > Regards > > > Ian McKnight _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
