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Thanks foxidrive!

Got it to work - realised in my case, my word file and excel file need to set to open as read only, and req a password for read/write.

A huge thanks again!

Hi foxidrive, I'm so close! I did as you suggested but they didn't open. So, to confirm that the server address was correct, I put in the path to the folders where the documents are kept. Sucess - they opened up. For some reason the document files don't open when I put that information in however. A...

Thanks Abc, That method works well except when I add in the word document and the excel document. As an alternative, I also tried START "" "N:\docs\etc\word.doc" This didn't work either. Not sure if this matters but both the word and excel docs are on a network drive.

Hi there, I've got such a simple problem that I can't seem to find any help for it. I hope you guys can assist. In my job, we use a lot of different programs at once. I want to creat a .bat file to load all these programs in an order. The programs are simple ones like Outlook and Lotus Notes, and so...