Put a registry key in variable and split it up!

[camerlengo]

Hello everyone,

since I need to install a powerpoint add-in without prompting messages I need to create a batch file to realise it.

First of all, my problem is that I don't know the commands to do what's in my mind. I hope you can help me out!

Problem:
I want to get the value of a registry key and put in into a variable first. I don't know how to get the final output into my variable.
When i put in 'reg query "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer"' for which the output is

(Standard) REG_SZ Word.Application.15 (those must be all parts of the key)

I want to save the "15" in a variable and after that concatenate it with two other strings (a wrap around) to combine all of those to a registry path file which i want to use.

However i dont know how to realise this, hopefully you can help me!

Kind regards

[Squashman]

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for /F "skip=1 tokens=3 delims=." %%G IN ('reg query "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer" /ve') do set ver=%%G

[camerlengo]

Thanks Squashman! But what is my variable name then? and how can i concatenate it with two other strings?

[camerlengo]

Is that code correct?

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for /F "skip=1 tokens=3 delims=." %%G IN ('reg query "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PowerPoint.Application\CurVer" /ve') do set ver=%%G

SET a="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\"
SET b=".0\PowerPoint\AddIns\MyAddIn"
SET path=%a%%%G%b%

REG ADD %path% /v "AutoLoad" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
REG ADD %path% /v "Path" /t REG_SZ /d AddIn.ppam /f

I want to create two keys in the registry to make powerpoint automatically load my add in. To keep the code dynamic i want to get the powerpoint version and afterwards concatenate it with the variables a and b which i wrap around to create a string that contains the registry path.

[camerlengo]

I still couldn't figure it out. It also says that the "reg" command is invalid