*Looking at title* MMF2 Build #248 (BETA 8)? o_o

I guess there is no chance of changing that to open with the default application it's associated to then. I can work around it I've opted for PDF as it's less hassle.

If one of the object for MMF2 can get the file association, why can't MMF2?

For .doc files, the Help feature of MMF2 applications runs Wordpad because it's installed on all the machines. For .txt files it runs Notepad. For other types of file it gets the program associated with the extension. If you want to run the program associated with .doc files you have to implement your own Help command and use the Open URL action of the Vitalize! object to open it.

More machines are going to have a .doc association than have wordpad (thought admittedly 99.9% do have wordpad).
Though I wouldn't use a .doc for a help file anyway, so it doesn't matter to me.