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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Nov. 5, 2003&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;MicroStation V8.5 - The &lt;em&gt;%&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;percent&lt;/em&gt; keyins will start an application while keeping MicroStation running.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;%winword&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will launch MS Word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;percent notepad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will start Notepad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;%excel d:\temp\MyData.xls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will fire up Excel and open MyData.xls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Older versions of MicroStation may need you to load &lt;em&gt;ntbang&lt;/em&gt; first with this keyin: &lt;em&gt;mdl load ntbang&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With thanks to Bentley&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;Gino Cortesi&lt;/em&gt; for posting this tidbit on the v8.general newsgroup. &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;AskInga Tip #336 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Nov. 5, 2003&lt;/em&gt;
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			&lt;td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"&gt;MicroStation V8.5 - The &lt;em&gt;%&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;percent&lt;/em&gt; keyins will start an application while keeping MicroStation running.&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;em&gt;%winword&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Will launch MS Word.&lt;br /&gt;
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			Will start Notepad.&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;em&gt;%excel d:\temp\MyData.xls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Will fire up Excel and open MyData.xls&lt;br /&gt;
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			Older versions of MicroStation may need you to load &lt;em&gt;ntbang&lt;/em&gt; first with this keyin: &lt;em&gt;mdl load ntbang&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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			With thanks to Bentley's &lt;em&gt;Gino Cortesi&lt;/em&gt; for posting this tidbit on the v8.general newsgroup. &lt;/td&gt;
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AskInga Tip #336
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