Run Word 2013 from command line

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Michael picture Michael · Jul 23, 2013 · Viewed 37.6k times · Source

Some of our clients have a problem we can not reproduce here inhouse: Out software uses MS-Word for producing form letter. Since some of our clients use Office 2013, this function won't work anymore.
We tried to reproduce this and detect that on the affected systems Word won't start from command line. Starting via the link in the startmenu works. It also works to start Excel from command line.

Does anyone have an idea what the problem is and how to solve it?

Answer

zako42 picture zako42 · Feb 4, 2014

You can try using start.exe from the command line:

c:> start winword

I'm wasn't familiar with it but tried it and it worked for me on Windows 7, with Office 2007. Found this site (windows-commandline.com). They claim it works for all versions of Word.

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