opening external document

[Truword Kapamara]

Hi

How do i open an external document such as a pdf, jpg, doc, or xls from latex? Im doing a presentation slide in latex which I would view using acrobat (i.e. pdf). On the slide, i would like to have a link to an external file e.g. xls. I would like to open the Excel from the slide I'm doing in latex. Is there anyone who's done this before? Please help!!!!

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[John Trapp]

The hyperref package allows you to access external and internal links.

I think that \href{c:\my documents\excel\presentation.xls}{Excel results}
will show `Excel results' on your slide, and clicking on it will give you
that file in Excel.

I have used Alt+Tab to toggle between two programs, Acrobat for slides,
the other for programmes such as Mathcad or Maple.

John