Greetings scripting gurus, hoping someone could confirm my understanding of this batch command. The command is as follows: start excel /p % "filefile.xls" /wait from my understanding, this starts MS Excel and accepts the input file (in this case, dragged and dropped onto this cmd's icon) - opening the file, then opening the "filefile.xls" - correct? I do have two questions - what does the "/p" do, and "/wait". If anyone knows, I would appreciate the input. Cheers and TIA

Hi James, hi everybody The Scripting gurus are over here, never the less I have done some searching. (http://www.computing.net/programming/wwwboard/wwwboard.html) /p Specifies the working folder, and should be placed after "filefile.xls", see MS-Excel's help file for more Startup parameters. On the Find/Answer Wizard tab type in Startup. /wait isn't recognized in MS-Excel's help file. I think it's a external command coming from the Windows NT Resource Kit CD-ROM. Hope this helps. Best Regards and Wishes, The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com