Applescript to open Windows file

I'me using Parallels to run Windows XP on my MAC. Is it possible to "tell" a Windows application (specifically Excel 2010 as opposed to Excel 2007 which I also have) to open a particular file, or alternatively to "tell" Finder to open my file using Excel 2010?

but I was hoping that AppleScript could run Excel via Finder
Assuming you mean the Mac version of Excel - that's trivial
I know I can do the following but it opens the file in Numbers
That's because Numbers is the default application for .xls documents. You can change the default application, or you can tell the (Mac) app to open the file:
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
open file "path:to:your.xls"
end tell
NIn other words - tell the application directly, and don't rely on the Finder. Note that the above is the normal syntax... it might not work with Excel's AppleScript 'implementation', in which case you can still fall back to the Finder:
tell application "Finder"
open "path:to:your.xls" using application "Microsoft Excel"
end tell
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