How to launch an application (like "word" from a stack?

[Emmett Gray]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:16:49 +0200, "Andre.Bisseret" 
<Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr> wrote asking this.

An elegant way is to use AppleScript, which avoids having to know the path:

do "tell application " & quote &  "Microsoft Word" & quote & " to 
activate" as AppleScript

opens it and makes it frontmost, or

do "tell application " & quote &  "Microsoft Word" & quote & " to 
run" as AppleScript

opens it an keeps it in the background.