You know how with Windows & MS Office, you can go to Start-Run

[raccoon]

and type in "Winword" to start Word, "Outlook" to start Outlook, "Excel" to start Excel...

Well, what about the others, PPT, Access, Frontpage? I've tried various combinations and can't get it.

[trotsky]

1. The executables are generally located in...

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\

and then a folder depending on what version you have.

E.g., Office11 = Office 2003 and Office12 = Office 2007.

You will find the files there. For the record, PowerPoint is POWERPNT.exe, Access is MSACCESS.exe, and Frontpage is FRONTPG.EXE.

Why the weird names? Microsoft likes to stick with the old naming conventions. Back in the DOS/Windows 3.1 days, filenames could only have 8 characters followed by a 3-character extension. Thus the abbreviations involved for programs with longer names.

[raccoon]

2. Thanks! nt

[canetoad]

3. You may be interested in this

http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

Free, unobtrusive and works well. It puts a tiny box on your desktop into which you can type a self-defined word to launch a program.
For example I have mine programmed to use Word, Excel, Photo, Irfan, Illustrate etc etc.

[Gore1FL]

4. well...

Power Point = powerpnt

Access = msaccess


I am curious though--why do this rather than use a shortcut?

[canetoad]

5. I can explain why I use Slickrun,

with a persistant cmd line launch.

Often I have windows open, lined up for a reason, need to compare files, not lose sight of what I have on screen and then I need to open another app to deal with something different. If you regularly found yourself in this position, you would not be asking why. The start menu is slow, returning to the desktop to click on shortcuts is even slower.

Sometimes I have a graphic element on the clipboard and don't want to paste it into several other programs. There are lots of reasons for having a command line launcher.

[Gore1FL]

6. fair enough That makes sense

I was just curious. I hope the powerpoint and access command lines helped.

[raccoon]

7. Because I'm at work and if I'm using a computer with a generic login,

the shortcut will go away when the computer is rebooted.

[MyNameGoesHere]

8. Haha

Some habits are hard to break. I still use 100's of cmd line or keyboard shortcuts. Ahh the days of Word Perfect and DOS. Still my fellow IT people are sometimes amazed, especially when they are clicking start programs blah blah and i already have launched it by keyboard shortcuts.

[Gore1FL]

9. It took me forever to load Windows permanently.

I would use it, get pissed off and erase it. Something happened to me in the NT 4.0 era and I guess just got lazy.