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How do you get Excel to execute Shell on an executable file that is not .exe, .bat, .com, or .pif extention? Furthermore, how do you get it it execute in a unix environment instead of dos? What I would like to do is have excel kick off a perl script when a command is clicked. Is this possible?<br />
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How do you get Excel to execute Shell on an executable file that is not .exe, .bat, .com, or .pif extention? Furthermore, how do you get it it execute in a unix environment instead of dos? What I would like to do is have excel kick off a perl script when a command is clicked. Is this possible?
Thanks


Excel Shell function

Visual Basic is Microsoft’s event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model. It is relatively easy to learn and use because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage. It has been replaced with VB.NET, and is very similar to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language for the Microsoft Office product line.