open application ini file error

hello all,

i'm quite new to macro programming and have been following this board and past q&a's for help but i couldnt find anything for this problem so i hope someone can help.

i need to write a macro to open a application but unfortunately it keeps saying "*****.ini" not located or something like that. i was hoping someone could guide me on how to solve this error and how to automate what i want it to do. i basically want it to copy a cell of data in excel and have the application search it then paste a separate cell of data in the search result.

any help would be hugely appreciated. thank you

I would guess it's the application you are opening that is complaining about the INI file - but that's impossible to say without seeing what code you do have...

Possible you could post it?

thanks cytop, i dont really have any code because what i have tried keeps failing.

but this is the code i am trying to use...i hope i re typed it out properly again

Private Declare PtrSafe Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, _
ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long


Sub OpenFile()
Dim FileName As String
Dim Result As Long
FileName = "** path of the file.exe**"
Result = ShellExecute(0&, vbNullString, FileName, _
vbNullString, vbNullString, vbNormalFocus)
If Result < 32 Then MsgBox "Error"
End Sub


thanks for any help