Microsoft KB Archive/224301

= OFF98: Contents of the Office 98 Unique Identifier Updater Readme =

Article ID: 224301

Article Last Modified on 10/2/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh

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SUMMARY
The Microsoft Office 98 Unique Identifier Updater contains a Readme file describing the changes made by the updater. This article contains the contents of the Readme file.



MORE INFORMATION
 MICROSOFT OFFICE 98 UNIQUE IDENTIFIER UPDATER INSTALLATION README FILE MARCH 1999

(c) 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

The Microsoft Office 98 Unique Identifier Updater addresses privacy concerns regarding the insertion of a unique identifier number in Office 98 documents. Once applied, the patch prevents Office 98 applications from inserting a unique identifier number into Office documents.

The following files are updated:
 * Microsoft Office98

Important notes about this Updater:

target machine, you will be instructed to quit the updater. "Microsoft  Office 98" is required for any Office application to boot. If it is not found, the updater assumes you do not have Office 98 installed and therefore no update is necessary.
 * If you do not have a copy of the file "Microsoft Office 98" on your

network volume. You must run the Updater on a copy of Office 98 located on a local disk, and then copy the updated version to your network volume.
 * It is not possible to directly update Office 98 if it is located on a

you will be asked to choose which copy you want modified. You can run the Updater multiple times if you want to patch more than one copy of the file.
 * If you have multiple copies of the file the updater is trying to patch,

language version of Microsoft Office 98. If you try to run this patch against other language versions, you will receive errors and your files will not be properly updated. Check the Microsoft Office 98 web page at  for the version of the Microsoft Office 98 Updater that matches your copy of Microsoft Office 98.
 * This copy of Microsoft Updater is designed to work only with the English

Updater.
 * We recommend you close other running applications before running this

extraneous data. Follow these steps to "clean" old files of any extraneous data they might contain:
 * New files created after this Updater has been applied will not contain

1. Open the file. 2. For Word documents only, choose Word Count from the Tools menu. Click the Close button when the word count is finished. 3. Choose Save As from the File menu 4. Click the Save button. When prompted, choose to Replace the existing file. 5. Choose Close from the File menu.

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