Shortcut to unknown Excelversion

[Elisabeth]

Hi!

I have a shortcut to an Excelfile that is used by several users with
different operating systems and different Excelversions.
In the properties of the shortcut I want to write that Excel should
open a new Excel instance. But my problem is that I dont know what
Excel version the user are using. Is there a way to write this without
writing the specific path as below?

Shortcut\Properties\Target
C:\Program\Office97\Office\EXCEL.EXE "MyPath\myfile.xla"

In Start\run you are able to write just "Excel" to open a new Excel.
Should be possible to write something similar in the shortcut?

Thanks in advance!

/ Elisabeth

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

I would think you wouldn't need more than

excel.Exe fullyqualified filename

 

[Elisabeth]

I have tried that with no success...any more suggestions?

Thanks for your reply
/ Lisa

 

[paul fredericksen]

Did you ever find a solution for this? I have exactly the same issue.