Quote:

I believe that when you have a string with spaces wrapped in quotes behind the "start" command "start" wants to interpret the first set of quotes as a title for the window. Therefore you need something along these lines:
mole



Hats off to you, Mole.
Thank you, that worked a treat, even with the extra /wrkgrp parameters on the end.


shell '%COMSPEC% /c start /max " " "c:\program files\microsoft office\office\msaccess.exe" C:\pathname\filename.mde /wrkgrp T:\security.mda'


Thanks for all of the suggestions and support from all of you.