Hi all

Just a quickie. How do I use the shell function and set the windowstyle variable to vbNormalFocus? In the vba help section it suggests:

[VBA]Shell("notepad", 1)[/VBA] but the VB editor doesn't like this

I know you can use [VBA]Shell pathname:="notepad", windowstyle:=1[/VBA]

but this is not the point. I spent ages trying to get the brackets to work! Does anyone know why this syntax doesn't work/ what the correct syntax is?

All help much appreciated

cheers
silentsound