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ahsin

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Registered: Sep, 2003

Invoking MicrosoftExcel from java

Posted: Sep 25, 2003 2:09 PM

Hi,
I would like to open up an excel project from a java code.
please help.Tried runtime.exec("excel.exe") to open the microsoft excel.But that gave an error
calling an excelfilejava.io.IOException: CreateProcess: Excel.exe error=2
Please help
ahsin

mausam

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Re: Invoking MicrosoftExcel from java

Posted: Sep 26, 2003 12:45 AM

code sample plz

Rahul

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Registered: Oct, 2002

Re: Invoking MicrosoftExcel from java

Posted: Sep 26, 2003 12:45 AM

Try using absolute file path. I used this and it works fine for me:

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\EXCEL.EXE");

Take care with the slashes. Window systems generally use back-slashes.

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