De: Theron Melcher Objet: Re: Launching Access from Excel Date : vendredi 13 août 1999 16:13 ' open Access and the topsReports database dim thenameOfYourAccessDBHere As Object On Error Resume next Set thenameOfYourAccessDBHere = GetObject("C:\my documents\thenameOfYourAccessDBHere.mdb") ''''or what the path maybe to the DB thenameOfYourAccessDBHere.doCmd.Openform "Print Job Reports" The last line is an example of calling a specific form hope this helps Gail Luther wrote in message <1BUs3.586$DI3.71728@typhoon01.swbell.net>... >We have an old Excel 4 macro that opens an MS Access database. We can't >figure out how to do this in Excel 97 Visual Basic. Any suggestions? > >Gail > >