Microsoft KB Archive/114001

= BUG: Shell Returns Invalid Proc Call Even If App Starts =

Article ID: 114001

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Project 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q114001



SYMPTOMS
The Shell statement can cause a Invalid Procedure Call even though the Shell statement successfully started the desired application.



WORKAROUND
To work around this bug, turn error trapping on and trap the Invalid Procedure Call error as in this example: On Error Resume Next Shell("C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE") ' Invalid Procedure Call: If Err <> 5 Then ' Insert code to handle other errors here. ' Exit if fatal

End if



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in Microsoft Visual Basic, Applications Edition, version 1.0 that comes with Microsoft Excel version 5.0 and Microsoft Project version 4.0. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Keywords: kbbug kbprogramming KB114001

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