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I have an AutoIT script that places a drop down menu toolbar on the user screen with links to various web sites important to the users.  The menus and links are kept in .ini files.

Now I want to use the same script to open Word documents and Excel spreadsheets kept on a shared drives.  I was hoping AutoIT would use the default program Windows has associated with a file extension to open the correct program.   I have not been able to do this and cannot find a solution in the Forums, documentation or Examples.   I was also hoping to extend this to PDF and Powerpoint files.    Basically, any program associated in Windows to a file extension.

Is this doable with AutoIT?    Any advise will be much appreciated.

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ShellExecute should do that for you.

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