Comment 16 for bug 243390

(In reply to comment #6)
> 1) Clean Wine prefix (by deleting .wine and running wineprefixcreate)

> Result:
> Word Viewer opens but still no file loaded.
>
> Next, I tried adding start.exe /Unix to the .desktop file's command line.

This is the Problem: You used a clean Wine, but the .desktop file is old
(without /unix)

> to
> env WINEPREFIX="/home/bamm/.wine" wine start.exe /Unix "C:\Program
> Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WORDVIEW.EXE" %U
>
> Result:
> Word Viewer opens but still no file loaded.

Wine is correct here.

> So it looks like the solution posted didn't work.

Remember, what parameter is a unix path, and how you modified your .desktop file

Remove the reference of WORDVIEW.EXE:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/bamm/.wine" wine start.exe /Unix %U

Problem fixed.

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By by ... Detlef