[Bug 19385] the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path

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Sat Feb 13 09:17:41 CST 2010


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19385





--- Comment #14 from Gogol <maartenvdbent at gmail.com>  2010-02-13 09:17:39 ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> The problem is that whatever is launching, MS Word is not properly wrapping the
> file name in quotes (i.e., "My Document.docx" is treated as "My"
> "Document.docx")
> 
> Working around the problem isn't too hard.
> 
> Try the following.
> 1) Make a script with the following text:
> #!/bin/bash 
> wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe" "`winepath -w
> "$@"`"
> and save it as "word_launch.sh". Put it somewhere safe, like your home
> directory.
> 2) Make the script executable (right-click on the script, Properties,
> Permissions).
> 3) Right-click on a Word document, choose Open With and choose Other
> Application...
> 4) Hit the browse button and find the script you just made:
> 5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each different file type (.doc, .docx).
> 6) Make a new script for each different program (Word, Excel, etc.)
> 
> 
> (The solution above is taken from Mazin's post in the following page:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8769518)

This solution doesn't help. Word will remain trying to open separate
documents...

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