Hello all,

Can anyone tell me how I can make it so that when I click on an office doc that it will open up with MS Word and not open office.

As much as I love open office, there are some things that I must do it word and its often enough that its now getting annoying to have to open word and then navigate to the files that I need to work with.

Linux Version: Fedora 7
Wine Version: 0.9.46-1

Aloha,
I will assume you are using the default Gnome in Fedora 7. If so, navigate to a .doc using Nautilus. Right click and select the Open With Other context and then I believe you should be able to put a custom launcher. In that case it would be use wine to run word to open this document. I am not sure the exact steps since I am at work right now but that is where you would assign which program launches when you click on a file. Please let me know if that works or not.
Mahalo,
Edward

Hi,

Im sorry I failed to mention that I was using Gnome. I did try using the custom launch but what ends up happening is that, it uses the icon for the actual file as a launch for the application...

I.E.

I right click on *.doc -> Click properties -> set the custom launcher to wine "/home/lem/.wine/c_drive/program files/office 2000/winword.exe" (going off memory on the location) -> close the properties window

Once I click on *.doc, it launches Word but it opens a blank word document instead of opening the document that I clicked on.

Aloha,
Hmm. I am not sure then. Can you try from a terminal...
wine "/home/lem/.wine/c_drive/program files/office 2000/winword.exe" /home/name_of_folder/name_of_file

and see if it will work that way? Perhaps writing a small script you can get it to open a .doc file in word thru wine via wine. Hope that works. it may not solve the issue gui wise. Be interesting to see.
Mahalo,
Edward