Opening Excel FIle Created in Access after creation

[tcheck]

I am using the following command to open Excel and it opens and then closes, not sure what code I should be using
Private Sub Command5_Click()
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

xlApp.Visible = True

xlApp.Workbooks.Open "J:\sales\CleanedData" & "DataAlert_" & Format(Date, "yyyyMMdd") & ".xlsx", True, False
Debug.Print xlApp.Version
Set xlApp = Nothing
End Sub

[ranman256]

you can use all that to open excel and control to modify the sheets.
But if you just want to open it for the user,
Paste this code into a module, and it will open ANY file in its native application.

usage: OpenNativeApp "c:\folder\file.xlsx"
will open it in excel
and
OpenNativeApp ME.txtBox
will open the doc in Word if the item in txtBox is C:\myfile.doc

'Attribute VB_Name = "modNativeApp"
'Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd 

As Long, ByVal lpszOp As String, ByVal lpszFile As String, ByVal lpszParams As String, 

ByVal lpszDir As String, ByVal FsShowCmd As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function GetDesktopWindow Lib "user32" () As Long
Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1
Const SE_ERR_FNF = 2&
Const SE_ERR_PNF = 3&
Const SE_ERR_ACCESSDENIED = 5&
Const SE_ERR_OOM = 8&
Const SE_ERR_DLLNOTFOUND = 32&
Const SE_ERR_SHARE = 26&
Const SE_ERR_ASSOCINCOMPLETE = 27&
Const SE_ERR_DDETIMEOUT = 28&
Const SE_ERR_DDEFAIL = 29&
Const SE_ERR_DDEBUSY = 30&
Const SE_ERR_NOASSOC = 31&
Const ERROR_BAD_FORMAT = 11&


Public Sub OpenNativeApp(ByVal psDocName As String)
Dim r As Long, msg As String

r = StartDoc(psDocName)
If r <= 32 Then
    'There was an error
    Select Case r
        Case SE_ERR_FNF
            msg = "File not found"
        Case SE_ERR_PNF
            msg = "Path not found"
        Case SE_ERR_ACCESSDENIED
            msg = "Access denied"
        Case SE_ERR_OOM
            msg = "Out of memory"
        Case SE_ERR_DLLNOTFOUND
            msg = "DLL not found"
        Case SE_ERR_SHARE
            msg = "A sharing violation occurred"
        Case SE_ERR_ASSOCINCOMPLETE
            msg = "Incomplete or invalid file association"
        Case SE_ERR_DDETIMEOUT
            msg = "DDE Time out"
        Case SE_ERR_DDEFAIL
            msg = "DDE transaction failed"
        Case SE_ERR_DDEBUSY
            msg = "DDE busy"
        Case SE_ERR_NOASSOC
            msg = "No association for file extension"
        Case ERROR_BAD_FORMAT
            msg = "Invalid EXE file or error in EXE image"
        Case Else
            msg = "Unknown error"
    End Select
'    MsgBox msg
End If
End Sub

[aytee111]

Application.FollowHyperlink filename

[tcheck]

Do I need all that code to open the file in Excel?

[aytee111]

Or just the one line.

[tcheck]

When I enter the code

OpenNativeApp "J:\DataAlert\CleanedData" & "BD_DataAlert_" & Format(Date, "yyyyMMdd")"

It does not recognize the OpeNativeApp command?