Question

I wanted to know that if I do

start excel temp.xls

The os will start a new excel instance and open the workbook temp.xls in that instance, AS AN ATOMIC action.

Right now what I have is

start excel
start temp.xls

And most often these two command will mess up my other excel instance, ie, opening temp.xls in another excel instance that has another workbook already opened.

Thanks,

Answer 1

While I think that “start excel temp.xls” will open temp.xls in the Excel instance started by start, you’d be on the safe side, if you use

  "<PathToExcel>excel" [/<opt>] "<PathToXls>temp.xls"

For opt see cli for excel (pick the docs for your version).