[CLUE-Tech] starting openoffice from the command line

[David Willson]

Try 'ooffice -help'

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From: "Ski Dawg" <skidawg at dscweb.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, 07 January, 2004 08:23
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] starting openoffice from the command line


> 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
>
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