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The Microsoft Script Editor ....................................................................................

The Microsoft Script Editor (MSE) has been part of Office for several versions now, but you might

not be aware of its existence. It doesn’t appear in either the Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office

Tools program group, nor is it one of the Open With selections on the right-click menu of a VBS file.

The MSE executable is located in the following path for Office 2007: C:\Program Files\Common

Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\MSE7.EXE, as shown in Figure 17.1.

FIGURE 17.1

The Microsoft Script Editor executable (MSE7.EXE).

You can open the MSE directly by double-clicking the MSE7.EXE file, and then open a script to

edit from its File➪Open menu, but for convenience you may wish to pin the executable file to

the Start menu, as shown in Figure 17.2.

For even greater convenience, you can select the MSE as the program to use when opening VBS

files. To do this, right-click a file with the .vbs extension in an Explorer pane, and select the

Choose Default Program command (see Figure 17.3).

Part III Adding More Functionality to Office