Opening a Word doc

Hello all, I am new to Flex. I have some experience with AS3 (still switching over from AS2).
Anyway, I am making a Flex project where I have a text link in a datagrid. This link needs to open a word document that is on our company network. Currently I'm working on my own personal computer on my C drive (not sure if that affects anything - when i hit Run does it run the application from my C drive? It should still work from there i'd think?) We have a bunch of other drives on our network, and the word doc I'm trying to open is on a "P:" drive.
I'm not sure what I might be doing wrong, but I created a LinkButton and tried 2 different attempts at opening a Word doc.
I tried creating a new URLRequest and navigateToURL to attempt to open the word doc - nothing happens when I click the link. The link button will launch google if i replace my word doc path with the google url.
I tried sending the file path to javascript via ExternalInterface and having javascript open it up. It doesn't work that way either.
Is there something I should know about opening up a Word doc file with Flex? Or possibly is it not working because of where the file resides? Any thoughts?
Thanks
-Michele

Actually, no and yes. No you do not have to re-save all of your Word files. It depends on what you want to do with them.
The file you have open is actually a Pages file which was created by converting the old Word file (which has not been altered at all). If you want to keep it and any changes you have made as a Pages file, you must "save as." The next time you open that file, it will open naturally in Pages. Every time you open the original Word file, since it has not been converted to native Pages, it will go through the same translating process as it did this time.

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