Hi Richard,

Your command line *must* point to the folder that contains winword.exe. It
doesn't matter what other folders you may find that look like they're
assiciated with Word or Office -- if Word's executable file isn't there, you
have to ignore it.

Does winword.exe appear in G:\OfficeXP? Or is that the folder that contains
the installer (which won't do you any good)?

Besides, OFFICE11 is the folder for Office 2003, not XP. Maybe there was a
failed installation of 2003, or maybe they installed Office 2003 but
excluded Word.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

richardb wrote:
Thank you Jay, that worked fine. Now I have a followup question. On
another system Word XP is starting from an admistrative installation
of Word XP located on the server. It's root location is G:\OfficeXP.
On the C drive of the client computer I find the folder C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 but there is no WinWord.EXE within
that folder. What would be your advise in that case? Thanks...

Richard Bennett

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:25:02 -0800, "richardb"
wrote:

I have a medical billing application that allows a user to launch a
word processor from within the program. To set this up in the
programs setup utilities, I must specify the startup program to
launch. In older versions of Word, I could specify WinWord.EXE or
similar. If a long path was needed I could launch a BAT file that
contained the path and the EXE program. I don't know how to
accomplish this for Word 2003. Can any one help? Thank you.

It's exactly the same as for previous versions, the only difference
being the version number (11 instead of 10, 9, etc.). If you accepted
the defaults during installation, the path is
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\winword.exe

If that doesn't work, use the Search function in Windows Explorer to
find winword.exe -- there should be only one on the disk.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org