msopen

Opens Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, & Access).

Description

msopen(file)
 
msopen : Opens Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, & Access).
 
file: Name of file with extension (ex. 'Doc1.doc')
 
Examples:
 
msopen myfile.doc;
msopen myfile.xls;
msopen myfile.ppt myfile.xls myfile.doc;
msopen *.xls *.doc;

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)
• Other requirements: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Access)

[Kimberly]

Is this command similar to officedoc and winopen.m?

[David Hayden]

dos('filename') is easier, except if you have spaces in your filename.

[Thierry Dalon]

Indeed winopen seems to do the same.
msopen has following extended features:
- can open several files in a row
- allows wildcard in filespec
- allows partial path
which make it anyway very useful.

I would have following improvements (that's why only a 4 rating):
- it would be nice if you could take as input a list (cellstr) of files and not only the command window syntax.
- there is a small bug if no file was found. (you should check if output of wildfiles==0 to exit properly)

I am using this file because I want to be able to open also txt files with Excel. I've modified the file
switch fext
case {'.xls','.xla','.xlt','.txt'}
so it handles this.
This can winopen definitely not do as well!

[Dany Simard]

Thanks, good to do the simple task of opening those files

[Daniel Febres]

i have a problem with this file. i used to open a xls file that must run the "MATLAB EXCEL LINK" macro, and this .m dont do that. it say me a error "the link is broken".

[Matthew Simoneau]

See also winopen.m, built into MATLAB.

[Ibrahim ONARAN]

Open an ms application is not that challenging. It is more important how to manage it by using matlab. Do you know some source that explain the functions and their parameters of this applications.