How can my cd rom automatically open a word document

[Mike Vvasquez]

I would like to enter a CD-rom I burn containing word documents to
automatically open a specific word file the next time I place the disk in my
CD-ROM drive. How can I make this happen.

 

[Debra Farnham]

Hi Mike

Check out this free utility:

http://autorun.moonvalley.com/instructions.htm

I am not associated with the company in any way .. it's merely a free tool I
found that seems to do the trick.

Just make sure you follow the instructions for opening a document very
carefully.

Debra

 

[Graham Mayor]

The chances of opening a Word document (which will be flagged read only)
from the CD are slim, because Word needs to create temporary files in the
working folder, which it cannot do on the CD. Documents should *always* be
opened, saved and printed from the hard drive.

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[Jezebel]

I absolutely agree that it's a bad practice, but it certainly works. Where
Word puts the temporary file I don't know. I think (but haven't checked)
that the temp file goes in the OLK folder that Word uses if you open a
document that's an email attachment.

 

[Jonathan West]

I absolutely agree that it's a bad practice, but it certainly works. Where
Word puts the temporary file I don't know. I think (but haven't checked)
that the temp file goes in the OLK folder that Word uses if you open a
document that's an email attachment.

I believe that if you open a file read-only, the owner and temporary files
are not created in the first place - no need for them. That is why opening a
Word doc off a CD works fine.


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[Charles Kenyon]

You can using an AutoRun file of some sort. However, you should not be doing
this. Word does not work well with files on removable media. You are much
better off copying files from a CD to your hard drive. If you want to have
it simply display, why not save as html?
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Mike]

I found more simpler wizard at http://www.autoruntools.com/express/
This wizard allows you just select your word file and it do all the
other stuff itself.