Re: CreateProcess question

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From: Ed Mulroy
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:25

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Either of ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx should be able to do that.

http://tinyurl.com/6ul68
http://tinyurl.com/dnba2

Or, if for some reason you don't want to use them, then FindExecutable 
should get you the path to WinWord

http://tinyurl.com/c73en

the above links in their long form

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shellexecute.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shellexecuteex.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/findexecutable.asp

.  Ed

> David Ayre wrote in message
> news:43d9f601$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> I want to start WinWord.exe from my application and display an
> rtf file. Could someone tell me how this can be done. I know the
> path to the file I want to display, but not the path to WinWord.
> Any suggestions would be welcome.

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