Finding a File

[Tony Ritcherson]

I've written a program that shells to Microsoft Word...
On my computer the path is "c:\program files\microsoft office\office\winword.exe"
But if i send this program to another computer, winword.exe may be in a different
directory... and so my program wouldn't work... because winword.exe would
be in the wrong place...hehehe
So i thought that if i could search the harddrive for winword.exe.... and
then find the path to it...i could write my program in such a way that it
could take path variations into account...
How do i write a procedure therefore that will search to see if winword.exe
exits, and then if it does...what is the path to it...
If you can help me i really appreciate it....

[Damit Senanayake]

Tony,

: How do i write a procedure therefore that will search to see if
winword.exe
: exits, and then if it does...what is the path to it...

Instead of doing this, you can use either:

(a) ShellExecute with a document name to launch Word and open the document

or

(b) FindExecutable on an existing Word document (doesn't have to have
anything in it)

Personally, I would go with (a), particularly if you're opening documents.

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[Damit Senanayake]

Tony,

: How do i write a procedure therefore that will search to see if
winword.exe
: exits, and then if it does...what is the path to it...

Instead of doing this, you can use either:

(a) ShellExecute with a document name to launch Word and open the document

or

(b) FindExecutable on an existing Word document (doesn't have to have
anything in it)

Personally, I would go with (a), particularly if you're opening documents.

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