This is going to sound stupid to you experienced users but I've just purchased Filemaker pro 7 and can't get it to do the task I want. I set up my Teaching Materials database and have filled record 1 with the appropriate fields and buttons. I want to press on my created button labelled "lesson plans" and for the program to open an OpenOffice or Word File and show me my lesson plan. I would also like to be able to press another button and get a picture, or something else with a different layout from my original record. I just cannot seem to do this and I have been trying for hours. I just don't know what to choose on the specify button menu or how to set the procedure up. Help! (Using Windows XP, Filemaker 7)

To create a button to paste a picture into a container, first create a script in ScriptMaker that will go to the layout, go to [container_field], then import picture[]. Then create a button on your layout that calls that script. When the user clicks on the button, they should be presented an open file dialog allowing them to choose the file to be imported.

I'm not much help at automating XP with VirtualBasic to open OpenOffice... so can't help you with the rest of your problem.