[CLUE-Tech] starting openoffice from the command line

[Ski Dawg]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 05:46, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> How does one launch an openoffice application, such as the
> spreadsheet from the command line?
> 
> I tried the instructions listed in
> http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/support/applications/openoffice/
> and pages similar to it, but that causes an installation
> program to start.  I know it's already installed, I can
> launch it from the Fedora Core toolbar.

On my system (RH8, with OOo 1.1), I just type soffice at the command
line. It runs from (/usr/bin).

Run soffice -help to get the different options.

To open a blank spreadsheet, do soffice -calc  If you have an existing
spreadsheet file that you want to open, just do soffice <file_name> and
it will detect the type of file it is and open the proper soffice
application.

HTH
--
Doug

Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org)
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