Please Help

jlab13 · Post by **jlab13** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:26 am

I am running Win XP pro SP1, and Macro Scheduler 7.2.043

I am having a problem with the program all of the sudden. I have a basic Excel Spreadsheet which I have always accessed daily via a Hoy Key. Now it crashes the whole msched.exe. The only way I can get it back up is by rebooting. It won't even shut down via the Task Mngr.
The code is basic as follows:
Run Program>C:\Documents and Settings\John LaBriola\My Documents\PBook.xls

I've been running this program for many months problem free. I tried installing this latest version, but doesn't seem to have fixed the prob.

I haven't installed any software, or made any changes to my OS in several weeks. Any suggestions?

Only seems to happen w/.xls and .doc files. txt files work fine. The .xls and .doc files in question work fine on their own, prob just occurs through Msched.

Thanks in advance!

support · Post by **support** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:54 am

Hi,

This doesn't explain why it used to work, but you're using the wrong command. If you want to open a file using it's file association then you should use ExecuteFile:

ExecuteFile>blablabla.xls

Using Run Program you would need to do:

Run Program>c:\blabla\excel.exe c:\blabla\my.xls

i.e with Run Program you should specify the executable with the filename on the command line. I'd go for the ExecuteFile method assuming your file associations are intact.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 4:45 pm

sorry I screwed up the original msg. I am actually using the ExecuteFile command. The RunProgram command that I copied and pasted was just from me trying it out to see if it would work.

The ExecuteFile cmd is the line that is giving me the problem:

ExecuteFile>C:\Documents and Settings\John\Desktop\Test.xls

Thanks for any ideas.