Load external text in a user friendly way

Ok this is what i want to do.
I know how to load external text files in AS3 but I want the user to be able to do it from within my excited swf file. The obvious way to do this is to load the text file using a string from a dynamic text field (e.g: "myfile/myTextFeild.txt") but i want it to be more user friendly.
If you click file open in Microsoft word, for example, you get the user friendly open box where you can find the file you want to load by browsing through your hard-drive.
Can you do something like this is AS3?
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks

see if you can extrapolate the path from there. FileReferenceList.browse()

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