Where is the Word executable file stored?

[Colonel Biggs]

I am using a Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) platform and Office 2010, and I would like to know where Office stores the executable file. I have looked in C:\User Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office, but I don't seem to be able to track it down. Can I presume that it is stored in the same location on a Windows 8 platform?

Thanks for any help.



Gordon
Houston, Texas

[macropod]

Office 2010 executables are usually stored in:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
or:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14

[Charles Kenyon]

The name of the file (in all modern versions of Word) is winword.exe.

[Colonel Biggs]

Thanks for your help.

Microsoft makes it difficult in Windows 8 to change a User Name. I want to synchronize certain files among three computers (using Dropbox for now), and I would like the User Names on my three computers to match.

I have created a Local Account with the correct User Name in Windows 8, and I am trying to duplicate all of my software in that account before I delete the User Account that I started with.

Thanks for your inputs!

Gordon
Houston, Texas

[macropod]

Changing the username is not that difficult! See: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html
Also, changing the username doesn't change the user account name; for that you need to create a new account (which is also quite easy).

Accessing the folder where the Word executable is stored won't let you do anything that has any effect on the username or the user account name.