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fabiospampinato / vscode-open-in-application

Open an arbitrary file in its default app, or the app you want.
MIT License
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Cannot open Excel files #19

Closed radumanolescu closed 3 months ago

radumanolescu commented 11 months ago

I installed the open-in-application extension, but I cannot open local Excel files in Excel, using links such as file:///C:\some\directory\some_file.xlsx

I tried various combinations of the settings below. I also tried exiting and re-opening VSCode. Every time, I get a warning that the file would be opened in VSCode and there is no appropriate editor for it

"openInApplication.applications": {
    "*.xlsx": "Excel"
}
"openInApplication.applications": {
    "xlsx": "excel.exe"
}
"openInApplication.applications": {
    "xlsx": "Excel"
}
fabiospampinato commented 11 months ago

Worth checking if you can open an excel file manually with the open package, if you can then there should be a way to get it to work with the app. Probably "Excel" or "excel.exe" are not the right names here 🤔 Besides isn't Excel configured as the default opener for those files? If so it should work without any configuration, and if it isn't maybe if you can configure that it will work with the extension.

fabiospampinato commented 3 months ago

I've rewritten the extension, worth checking if v2 fixes it. If it doesn't I'm going to need somebody to check if the open package can open the file.