default folder locations (97–>)

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C:Program FilesMicrosoft Office

can anybody tell me the default folder locations for winword.exe for:

1) Word 97
2) Word 2000
3) Word XP
4) Word 2003

and is it affected by the OS? If so would it be different for:

5) Windows 98
6) Windows 2000
7) Windows XP

Thanks in advance, this is required for an application I am creating.

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It’s not OS-dependent.

For Office 97 and Office 2000: C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice
For Office XP: C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice10
For Office 2003: C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice11

And check out How to Determine the Path for an Office Application.

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Thanks Hans, perfect.

I thought the operating system would have no affect, but I checked just in case

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As far as I know there’s no hard-coded “default” location. The user can change the installation drive and path during setup, and “Program Files” isn’t always called like that on all Windows language versions. In my applications I look in the registry to get the answers.

The Office installation path is the “Path” value under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice10.0CommonInstallRoot
(replace 10.0 with the version you’re looking for)

The current path of each application is stored here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionApp Paths
Look for the “Path” value of the appropriate key, e.g.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionApp PathsWinword.exe

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