Outlook stationery installer?
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judas

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6,249 posts

290 months

Monday 4th June 2007
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Anyone know if there's any software out there for building self-installing Outlook stationery templates?

We quite often get asked to design these so our clients can send branded emails (*cough* spam *cough* hehe) but the problem is that the end user is usually technically challenged and talking them through installing the template is a real headache, so a pointy-clicky installer would be very useful. A self-extracting zip file or the like won't work because it won't know where the user's document folder is.

LordGrover

34,189 posts

243 months

Tuesday 5th June 2007
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You should know the users home directory ... it's a variable called HOMEPATH.
In a DOS box enter:
echo %HOMEPATH%
It'll display users home directory. You can therefore unzip files to %HOMEPATH% from within a batch file or script.