How to launch Word from a shortcut

[Niroo TP]

Hi,
the company I'm working with is upgrading from Office 2000 to 2003. We have
a desktop shortcut to an application which looks like

c:\program files\microsoft office\office\winword.exe /n /L"mytemplate.dot"

when Office 2003 is installed word will be in

c:\program files\microsoft office\office11

So the desktop shortcut will no longer work. The problem here is the
parameters that are passed to winword since if I just do a 'start
mytemplate.dot' then I don't get the option to pass in the parameters.

Is there a way to configure the shortcut so it works the same but will work
whether the user has Office 2000 or 2003.

Thanks

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Tmlyb28gVFA=?=,

the company I'm working with is upgrading from Office 2000 to 2003. We have
a desktop shortcut to an application which looks like

c:\program files\microsoft office\office\winword.exe /n /L"mytemplate.dot"

when Office 2003 is installed word will be in

c:\program files\microsoft office\office11

So the desktop shortcut will no longer work. The problem here is the
parameters that are passed to winword since if I just do a 'start
mytemplate.dot' then I don't get the option to pass in the parameters.

You can't pass parameters to Word via the commandline. /n starts Word with no
new document ("Document 1"); /t would create a document from a particular
template; /l starts Word with an Addin loaded. Apparently this last is your
concern.

If you want the Addin to always load when Word starts, place it in the users'
STARTUP folder.

Is there a way to configure the shortcut so it works the same but will work
whether the user has Office 2000 or 2003.

Only by installing Office 2003 to the same path you used for the other
version. But if this is all on a network (which I assume it is) you should be
able to use a policy on startup to create new shortcuts for the users? Try
asking in a more appropriate group: office.setup

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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