Accessing EXE

The_Steward

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Hi,

This is probably a stupid question, but can you open an exe file created by an excel add-in without using needing excel?
 

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It depends on what commands have been put into the file. By definition an exe file can be executed from Windows. It should only contain commands that can be executed by Windows. But if other non executable commands have been imbedded into the file then no. Simply placing an exe extension onto the file doesn't necessarily make it executable.
 
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It depends on what commands have been put into the file. By definition an exe file can be executed from Windows. It should only contain commands that can be executed by Windows. But if other non executable commands have been imbedded into the file then no. Simply placing an exe extension onto the file doesn't necessarily make it executable.
Interesting, so what's an example of an excel file that can be executed by windows? and what's an example of an excel file that has a non executable command?
 
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