Invoking Excel (MS Graph)

Hey,
I need to invoke Excel and more specifically MS Graph.
Is this possible, can anyone point me in the direction of more info?

You can do this:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("excel.exe");
Just replace Excel.exe with the actual executable file for Excel. I'm not sure about starting it up with MS Graph.

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