Can I associate WINE apps to open MS Office type files in Gnome3?

Hello,
I am stuck, well, I think getting closer. I just bought a second hand PC 2 weeks ago. I have a Archlinux setup on it with Gnome 3 (fallback mode) and got it looking a lot like Windows7 so the family don't complain its no good..
I have everything working nicely, MS Word, Excel & Powerpoint inside Playonlinux and have my shortcuts on Desktop, etc.. for kids' homework assignments. I edited my menus with Alacarte and generally its all looking good. I figured out the necessary usbpl module quirks to get my 2 USB printers working on it as well.
I am really stuck with file associations. I have been reading the Archwiki article on Xdg-open and I now have the following ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list file
[Default Applications]
inode/directory=Thunar File Manager.desktop
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation=Powerpoint2007.desktop;
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet=Excel2007.desktop;
#application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document=playonlinux --run "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /home/nenas/Downloads/"$docname";
#application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroenabled.12=playonlinux --run "/home/nenas/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Office2007/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE $docname";
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document=playonlinux --run "/home/nenas/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Office2007/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE $docname";
text/html=chromium.desktop
I look in Chromium Downloads or Thunar file manager and click on the .docx .xlsx and .pptx files. I am able to get the programs to open but unfortunately not the filename I am clicking on, much less when the filenames contain spaces in them. At the moment it simply opens the program (which is a great start). but I am sure I should be able to get the clicked filename to open too.
Has anyone successfully done this? What about for files with spaces in the name?
I found this useful site where others say they have succeeded but i just can't get it to work:
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-3375.html
Can anyone see where I am going wrong (with MS Word association at least)?
thanks a lot,
Peter

This is a Windows problem, so go to the Microsoft search page to learn how to set your file associations
http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

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