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Asked: 2026-05-23T03:05:54+00:00

I have the following vba-code in an MS-Access97-frontend which opens a word-document stored on

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I have the following vba-code in an MS-Access97-frontend which opens a word-document stored on a server:

Call Shell("winword ""\\Fileserver\Contabilita\Crucial deadlines\Bonifico97.doc""", 1)

The document is a merge-document (getting data from a query and populates the document from the data retrieved)

Now, I have put the database-frontend on another computer (still using MS-Access 97 but with MS-Word 2003 installed on the PC – MS-Access 97 is still working nicely since it was installed in a different directory) but now when above code, using call shell, is being executed, I always get “Document not found”. If I launch above shell command in Start/execute, the document is being opened correctly.

What could be the problem? The file-path? Did any anything change in VBA 97 and VBA2003 what regards file-paths? I am aware of the fact that there is a folder in the file-path with a space but it works nicely on the PC with office97 installed.

I would appreciate any help I can get. Thank you.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You will need to use the full path for Word.

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