Open an App and see the App instead of just the name in the menu bar?

This may seem like a dumb question, but here goes anyway...
Two applications in particular....Microsoft Office apps (word,excel,etc)
and Pro Tools LE....
How do I open these apps and see the opening page of the app, rather that
just the name of the app in the menu bar and the desktop...?
This happens automatically in Win XP or Vista....

Only a very few Apps have the option/preference to do that in OSX, not sure if any MS APPs do or not.
Maybe it would be closer to what you want though, to instead of opening the APP, drag say the Word® doc you want to the Word® icon in the Dock, which runs Word, opens the document, and skips the Open Dialog.

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