open an excel and windows application file

i want to run a test where by i open an already created excel file, and a windows application file, and then begin additional test actions.



i'm using excel 2010, on a windows 9 64bit machine.



i have the tested apps in my keyword test script, but i want to use a simple file open command to open a named file from a certain location. if i record the action i get a lot of unnecessary steps and i expect it could be prone to error.