URGENT-Opening Microsoft Excel and Word files

[flashster]

[In this case I can't avoid having to use excel and word files (I would
rather PDF).]

I need to link to a word file, so that when the link is clicked, the file
opens in Microsoft Word (the full word, not wordpad). The same goes for an
Excel file.

I have seen the 'open' command, but I will not always be able to guess where
the winword.exe application is on the users hard disk, so I will not be able
to enter the second argument for that command.

I just need a command that tells the operating system to open the file with
the default application for that file type, I guess.

Does this mean I need an Xtra? If so which one is recommended?

Flash

[garwspeed]

use file xtra 4
[url]http://www.kblab.net/xtras[/url]

with something like this code...

fxObj = xtra("FileXtra4").new()

put fxObj.fx_FileOpenDocument("c:\Xeno2000.ppt")

fxObj = 0

this xtra is free and really useful