Office Shortcuts

[Cooners]

Hi

 

One of the schools I work in has two different versions of office installed and on top of that they have some 32bit and some 64bit Win 7 machines some running 2003 some running 2010, at the moment I need three shortcut icons for each program, is there any way I point to whatever version is installed because it's a mess at the moment.

 

Many Thanks

[cpjitservices]

Item level targetting, you can use ILT to look for a vfile version and if it is present it'll place a shortcut. This is all done in group policy.

[zag]

Or just install all versions of office in c:\program files

[Arthur]

Another solution would be to use a script to launch each Office program, then create a shortcut pointing to each script and change the icons to match the programs.

 

The VBScript's shown below will work regardless of whether the OS is 32-bit/64-bit or the version of Office installed, because the paths to Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. are stored in the registry.

 

http://i.imgur.com/Q1ZQyZV.png

 

Word.vbs

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "[color="#FF0000"]WinWord.exe[/color]", 1, False

 

Excel.vbs

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "[color="#FF0000"]Excel.exe[/color]", 1, False

 

PowerPoint.vbs

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "[color="#FF0000"]PowerPnt.exe[/color]", 1, False

[Cooners]

Thanks you, thats a brilliant and quick way of doing it, just what I was after. I will look at item level targeting as well though to see what it does. Thanks everyone for the help

[AngryTechnician]

Another solution would be to use a script to launch each Office program, then create a shortcut pointing to each script and change the icons to match the programs.

How do you know where to point the shortcut icon though?

[Cooners]

I've made a copy of the icons in the same folder I've dropped the VB scripts, just finishing it off then going to give it a try.

 

Edit: All done now and working like a charm, thank you so much

Edited May 3, 2013 by Cooners

[Arthur]

How do you know where to point the shortcut icon though?

I would do what @Cooners did - extract the icons from the EXEs using something like IconsExtract and place them in the same folder as the scripts.