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Old April 6th, 2010, 11:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Moon
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Default Finding the path of a program

Hi,

I just got a new Microsoft keyboard and mouse. You can assign favorites keys
to the keyboard by typing in the path of the program or using the browse
feature. I would like to assign Word 2007 to Favorites Key 1. How do I find
the path of Word 2007 on my computer? Where do I look?

Thank you for any help you can give me.
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Old April 6th, 2010, 11:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Yves Dhondt
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Default Finding the path of a program

Just do a system wide search for "winword.exe" which is the Word program.

Alternatively, you can open a command prompt, and execute the following
line:

reg query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Install Root /v Path

This will return something like:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\ Common\InstallRoot
Path REG_SZ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\

The last part (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\) tells you were
Office is installed. The shortcut to Word is that value followed by
"winword.exe". So in the above case:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe

Yves

"moon" wrote in message
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Hi,

I just got a new Microsoft keyboard and mouse. You can assign favorites
keys
to the keyboard by typing in the path of the program or using the browse
feature. I would like to assign Word 2007 to Favorites Key 1. How do I
find
the path of Word 2007 on my computer? Where do I look?

Thank you for any help you can give me.


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Old April 7th, 2010, 03:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
moon4707
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Default Finding the path of a program

Yves, thank you very much. Your answer was perfect.

"Yves Dhondt" wrote:

Just do a system wide search for "winword.exe" which is the Word program.

Alternatively, you can open a command prompt, and execute the following
line:

reg query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Install Root /v Path

This will return something like:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\ Common\InstallRoot
Path REG_SZ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\

The last part (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\) tells you were
Office is installed. The shortcut to Word is that value followed by
"winword.exe". So in the above case:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe

Yves

"moon" wrote in message
news
Hi,

I just got a new Microsoft keyboard and mouse. You can assign favorites
keys
to the keyboard by typing in the path of the program or using the browse
feature. I would like to assign Word 2007 to Favorites Key 1. How do I
find
the path of Word 2007 on my computer? Where do I look?

Thank you for any help you can give me.


.

 




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