I want to make a program which, when open a program, you can choose which a Office program to open (Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2003). I mean multi-choosing a program. But how to make it? My father want to have both Office 2003 and Office 2010 installed on Windows 7 x64.
I just did a quick google on installing different version of Office onto the same PC. Apparently it does not cause to many problems. Outlook and Access I think it said. The trick was to install the older version first. As for a prog to let you choose your preferred app, would it just be as simple as START\All Programmes\ "your chosen app" Or make a folder on your Desktop Called " Office Shortcuts" and create shortcuts for all the Office apps and copy them into that folder. Simply open the folder and select your app. Or have I read this wrong.
it is possible to do with just a CMD script: Code: @ECHO off cls :start ECHO. ECHO 1. Start Word ECHO 2. Start Excel ECHO 3. Start PP set /p choice=Type the number to start the program. rem if not '%choice%'=='' set choice=%choice:~0;1% ( don`t use this command, because it takes only first digit in the case you type more digits. After that for example choice 23455666 is choice 2 and you get "bye" if '%choice%'=='' ECHO "%choice%" is not valid please try again if '%choice%'=='1' goto word if '%choice%'=='2' goto excel if '%choice%'=='3' goto pp ECHO. goto start :hello ECHO STARTING WORD start "%ProgramFiles%\Path_To_Your_Word_EXE" goto end :bye ECHO STARTING EXCEL start "%ProgramFiles%\Path_To_Your_EXCEL_EXE" goto end :test ECHO STARTING POWER POINT start "%ProgramFiles%\Path_To_Your_POWEER_POINT_EXE" goto end :end pause exit