Comment 13 for bug 664751

Hello,

thank you for all this information. I had the same problem and now I can start Excel and Word directly from wine menu. However, I tried the same fix for powerpoint and I am still unable to launch it (I must add that before the fix, from .lnk to .exe at the properties command line, powerpoint did not launch either). Do you have any suggestions I can try? (I use Open Office but I am not doing this for myself but my parents' PC, which has Linux Mint 10 --Julia).

Here is the error I get when attempting to launch from wine menu:

Error when launching Powerpoint in safe mode. Do you wish to repair yes/no
When I click on 'yes' nothing will happen.

Does this have anything to do with a corrupted .dll file or some other file that needs to be replaced?

Currently the command line to launch power point (in properties) reads as follows:
"/home/german/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/POWERPNT.EXE"

Before it used to be:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/german/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/german/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/german/Start\ Menu/Programs/Microsoft\ Office/Microsoft\ Office\ PowerPoint\ 2007.lnk

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Last but not least, I must add that my understanding of Linux Mint 10 is limited to only this: it seems to be GREAT.

Jorge.