Is it possible to open an excel file in oracle forms?

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to open a specific excel file in oracle forms by creating a button with a when pressed button trigger, so I learned about one of the method to do that by the following query:

DECLARE

AppID PLS_INTEGER;

BEGIN

AppID := DDE.App_Begin('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE );

END;

but the problem is this query is opening a new empty excel sheet, so I tried to modify the query to open the specific excel file that I want and I came with this query:

DECLARE

AppID PLS_INTEGER;

BEGIN

AppID := DDE.App_Begin('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE D:\Spools\data.xlsx',DDE.APP_MODE_MINIMIZED);

END;

but unfortunately I'm facing this message after pressing the button.

Any suggestion please ?