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Linking to MS Office File in Emacs Org Mode

2012-07-18 by Mikey Boldt 3 Comments

My daily workflow includes emacs org mode files for each project I’m working on. I often link to files, programs, etc. from these org mode files. I tried linking to a MS Excel spreadsheet using my usual

file:/path/to/file.xlsx

link. However, since the xlsx file is really a zip file, emacs opened a dired buffer revealing the contents, rather than opening it in Excel.

After a bit of googling, I found a message from the org mode mailing list about linking to Excel and Word documents from org mode and discovered the file+sys link type. This, per the org mode External Links manual, will “open via OS, like double-click”, which is exactly what I want. Good reminder for myself: when all else fails, RTFM.

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Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: emacs, msoffice, orgmode

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  1. Joao Brito says

    2013-12-27 at 07:23

    tks. I’d never noticed file+sys type of link, although I’ve already lost some precious hours trying to handle this kind of situation.

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  2. eliaso says

    2014-04-30 at 02:22

    thanks, TFM is too big

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  3. Ricardo Orbegozo says

    2019-08-23 at 05:10

    Your postr is still valid, and, as Joao, I lost precious time setting org-file-apps to open xlsx files in excel and now I find your solution more accurate, thank you for sharing

    Reply

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