Office Shortcut Bar & command line

[Jeff]

Here's the skinny,

In earlier versions of windows (perhaps WinNT or
Win98), I know that I used to be able to goto: Start ->
Run, then type: msoffice from the command line and the
Office shortcut bar would appear. Now when I type
msoffice, it does not find the file.

I know how to navigate to the file manually in the
office10 folder; however, I just want to know if there is
another way to get to it from the command line with a
simple word such as "moffice or msoff", if you guys know.

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[Gary Smith]

In earlier versions of windows (perhaps WinNT or
Win98), I know that I used to be able to goto: Start ->
Run, then type: msoffice from the command line and the
Office shortcut bar would appear. Now when I type
msoffice, it does not find the file.

I was able to fix a similar problem with Office 2000 on Windows 2000 by
editing the registry. In order to be able to execute the program
from the Run box, there must be a key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\MSOFFICE.EXE" with two values. The unnamed (Default) value is the
full name of the program file. The value named "Path" is the folder in
which the program begins execution, which is probably irrelevant in this
case.

When I ran Regedit, I found that the MSOFFICE.EXE key was present, but the
(Default) value had the wrong path. It was "D:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office\MSOFFICE.EXE" when it should have been "D:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office\1033\MSOFFICE.EXE". (The correct location on
your system will probably be different.) Correcting that made msoffice
available from the Run box.

The Path value contained "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office". I
left that alone.