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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sep 27, 2005&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;With thanks to &lt;em&gt;Rudi Wells&lt;/em&gt; for sharing this tip:&lt;br /&gt;To run an external application from MicroStation, simply keyin the name of the application preceeded by a &lt;em&gt;%&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example - to kick off NotePad, the keyin is: &lt;em&gt;%notepad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But...if the file is read-only, you&amp;#39;ll need to add a space behind the &lt;em&gt;%&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Like this - &lt;em&gt;% notepad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is true for all read-only files so applies to Bentley View and Bentley Redline as well. &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sep 27, 2005&lt;/em&gt; 
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			&lt;td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"&gt;With thanks to &lt;em&gt;Rudi Wells&lt;/em&gt; for sharing this tip:&lt;br /&gt;
			To run an external application from MicroStation, simply keyin the name of the application preceeded by a &lt;em&gt;%&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			For example - to kick off NotePad, the keyin is: &lt;em&gt;%notepad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			But...if the file is read-only, you'll need to add a space behind the &lt;em&gt;%&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
			Like this - &lt;em&gt;% notepad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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			This is true for all read-only files so applies to Bentley View and Bentley Redline as well. &lt;/td&gt;
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AskInga Tip #557 
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&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sept. 27, 2005&lt;/em&gt;
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			&lt;td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"&gt;With thanks to &lt;em&gt;Rudi Wells&lt;/em&gt; for sharing this tip:&lt;br /&gt;
			To run an external application from MicroStation, simply keyin the name of the application preceeded by a &lt;em&gt;%&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			For example - to kick off NotePad, the keyin is: &lt;em&gt;%notepad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			But...if the file is read-only, you'll need to add a space behind the &lt;em&gt;%&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
			Like this - &lt;em&gt;% notepad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;br /&gt;
			This is true for all read-only files so applies to Bentley View and Bentley Redline as well. &lt;/td&gt;
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