xdg-open for open MS Word files

• aalianebhan

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  January 3, 2014 at 2:12 am

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  Hello friends,

  I have MS Word 2007 set up in it is own wine prefix for work documents. Sadly, my place of employment is a securely Microsoft shop, even though I use Linux only at home. It runs, it performs, the only thing I cannot find out is how to include it with my desktop, especially, when click on a doc file in my browser or file manager I would like it to open the doc in Ms Word. Depending on the application, presently doing either does nothing, or starts Word with a blank document. Ideally, I'd like to use xdg-open to do this, but I cannot find out how xdg-open

  a) passes the file name (which is presumably not working in the case of blank documents)

  b) determines that it should use word/wine

  All help appreciated

  Thanks

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• aalianebhan

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  February 2, 2014 at 10:42 pm

  #1685393

  aalianebhan (1/3/2014)

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  Hello friends,

  I have MS Word 2007 set up in it is own wine prefix for work documents. Sadly, my place of employment is a securely Microsoft shop, even though I use Linux only at home. It runs, it performs, the only thing I cannot find out is how to include it with my desktop, especially, when click on a doc file in my browser or file manager I would like it to open the doc in Ms Word. Depending on the application, presently doing either does nothing, or starts Word with a blank document. Ideally, I'd like to use xdg-open to do this, but I cannot find out how xdg-open

  a) passes the file name (which is presumably not working in the case of blank documents)

  b) determines that it should use word/wine

  All help appreciated

  Thanks

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  Guys, I am waiting for your reply........ thanks 🙂

• cathyhill345

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  March 4, 2014 at 9:10 pm

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  aalianebhan (1/3/2014)

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  Hello friends,

  I have MS Word 2007 set up in it is own wine prefix for work documents. Sadly, my place of employment is a securely Microsoft shop, even though I use Linux only at home. It runs, it performs, the only thing I cannot find out is how to include it with my desktop, especially, when click on a doc file[/url] in my browser or file manager I would like it to open the doc in Ms Word[/url]. Depending on the application, presently doing either does nothing, or starts Word with a blank document. Ideally, I'd like to use xdg-open to do this, but I cannot find out how xdg-open

  a) passes the file name (which is presumably not working in the case of blank documents)

  b) determines that it should use word/wine

  All help appreciated

  Thanks

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  I am quite new to xdg-open, and I found you have posted the questions in other forum. To help later readers, I put relative links here.:-)

  By the way, you are using Ubuntu or libreoffice-writer?

  http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7473020.html

  http://askubuntu.com/questions/260837/how-to-set-chromium-to-open-word-documents-with-libreoffice