Open a specific word doc

[Neodubois]

I am trying to open a specific word doc from xls

I have searched the forum and all word related threads are more complicated, I imagine that this would only require a fex lines ?

[GTO]

Greetings Neodubois,

Is the word document in the same folder as the workbook? Not a big deal whether yes or no, just would like any respondant to be able to provide the best answer first time out.

Mark

[Kenneth Hobs]

If all you want to do is open it, you could use a hyperlink or by VBA:
[VBA] Shell "CMD /c c:\myfiles\wp\ken.doc"[/VBA]

[lucas]

or.. as an alternative:
[VBA]
Option Explicit
Sub OpenDocFile()
' ActiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink Address:="C:\temp\help.doc", _
'if doc is in same directory as excel file
ActiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink Address:="help.doc", _
NewWindow:=True
End Sub
[/VBA]