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Change over to Windows 7
Sep 19th, 2011 at 11:45pm
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I currently use Sesame 1.14. Yes............... I also have 2.52 but not comfortable with it as yet.
I recently purchased a new Dell laptop with Windows 7. I copied everything relatively easily from my old Vista Dell.
My sesame applications are working just fine except for running a merge document. I retrieve and sort the data but when I choose
one of my installed merge documents the small DOS black screen appears but the merged word document does not open. In fact I remember this issue from many years back and believe it might be related to the word batch file. Below is the word batch I have installed on the windows 7:

cd "c:\program files\Microsoft Office\office12"
winword.exe %1
Exit ils to open.

Is there something wrong here?? Possibly the office12 section???

Help would be much appreciated,
Peter
  
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Re: Change over to Windows 7
Reply #1 - Sep 20th, 2011 at 4:46am
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If you have a 64-bit OS with a 32-bit Office suite, you'll need to use something more like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14 (if using Office 2010)
  


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Re: Change over to Windows 7
Reply #2 - Sep 20th, 2011 at 1:04pm
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Hi Carl,
Thanks for the suggestion. I changed the word.bat file to read:

c:
cd "c:\program files(x86)\Microsoft Office\office14"
winword.exe %1
Exit

However, the result is the same. The "black DOS screen" appears for a second but Word does not open.
---Is there an issue with the wording in the bat file??
---Is there something with compatability, in Word, that I might be missing??

As always you are very helpful,
Peter
  
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Re: Change over to Windows 7
Reply #3 - Sep 20th, 2011 at 3:00pm
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I see that you don't have a space after the s in files.

This:
c:\program files(x86)\Microsoft Office\office14

Should be this:
c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft Office\office14


If that still doesn't work, you may want to do a search for "windword.exe" in the "Program Files" and "Program File (x86)" folders.

Or you could manually navigate to the following folders to see if winword.exe exists in one of them:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14
  


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Re: Change over to Windows 7
Reply #4 - Sep 20th, 2011 at 3:34pm
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A Winner!!
That did the trick.

Thanks much Carl,
Peter
  
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Re: Change over to Windows 7
Reply #5 - Sep 20th, 2011 at 3:42pm
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Carl usually has the correct answer!

If anyone else searches and reads this thread at a latter time a very simple method to get this correct is.

In windows 7 just click your start button (round button left bottom corner) in search box type winword when it appears in box above, right click on it and select properties. then highlight location, right click copy and paste that line in your bat file.
  

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