How to call external programs?

I have seen people call external programs through LabVIEW and was curious what functions you could use to do this.
I'm pretty sure its using one of the ActiveX functions or maybe 'open application reference .vi'.
Can anyone tell me (or show me) a quick example of how to open an external program (ie excel, notepad, etc) programatically
Cory K
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Cory K wrote:
Where did they get this:
Kudos for going from "I don't know to start" to "Let's stump Ben" with only the second post to this thread.
I either copy it from an example or try to browse to it.
NOTE:
If you plan to work with MS ActiveX objects, I found it very helpful to do a custom install of Office and make sure the help files for VBA are loaded. These will at the least give you an idea of what the methods are and what parameters go with each.
Ben
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