How to find where MS Office is installed?

[tcom36]

I need to install an Excel VBA macro into the XLSTART directory of an existing MS Office 2003 or 2007 installation.

How can I find out in an InstallScript MSI project where the base install directory of MS Office is?

[mr_slava]

You need to read value from registry. This is HKLM root and you will want to get "Path" key from "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\OUTLOOK.EXE".
How you will do that doesn't matter. You may want to use VBScript in CA or InstallScript.
Hope this is what you looking for 🙂

[tcom36]

Thank you, that was exactly what I was looking for.

I think I will define an additional property by using the system search feature.