Microsoft KB Archive/165725

= OFF97: How to Configure Setup.stf to Exclude Office Assistant =

Article ID: 165725

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 97 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q165725



SUMMARY
In Microsoft Office 97, it is possible to customize a post-administrative installation (setup /a) so that when your users run Office 97 Setup, Office Assistant is not available for installation and none of the Microsoft Outlook components are installed.

This article explains how to perform this task by editing the Office Setup .stf file.



MORE INFORMATION
WARNING: This modification may not be supported by Microsoft. Microsoft support professionals will support some modifications to a BACKUP copy of the Setup.stf file. Note also that while support professionals may help customers modify specific lines of an STF, we will not rewrite the entire file in order to achieve a desired configuration. As a general rule, support is limited to options that can normally be changed by a user during a standard installation of the application.

NOTE: The following steps work only if you first perform an administrative installation (setup /a) of Office 97 to a server on your network. If you are performing a stand-alone installation using the Office 97 compact disc, you cannot use the steps in this article.

Before you perform the following steps, make a backup copy of the Off97pro.stf or Off97std.stf file on your server. Rename the file to Backup.stf and do not open or edit it for any reason.

 Edit the .STF file in a text editor such as Microsoft Word, Wordpad, or Notepad.

NOTE: MS-DOS Editor should NOT be used to modify the SETUP.STF file. MS- DOS Editor replaces tabs with spaces and will cause the same error. Other text editors that are known to replace tabs with spaces (and are thus unsuitable for modifying the .STF file) are Xtree Gold 2.0 by Executive Systems and QEdit by SemWare Inc.  Find the following Object IDs and delete the corresponding values from the Object Data column on the same line. Make sure you delete the trailing space after each number. Use the table that is appropriate for your version of Office.

Microsoft Office 97 Professional Edition:      For        Remove the Reference to      ---

ObjID 89                     12901 ObjID 85                     12901 ObjID 51                     12903 ObjID 53                     12903 ObjID 58                     12903 ObjID 335                    12904 Microsoft Office 97 Profession Edition, SR-1:      For        Remove the Reference to      ---

ObjID 98                     13201 ObjID 94                     13201 ObjID 52                     13203 ObjID 54                     13203 ObjID 59                     13203 ObjID 348                    13204 Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition:      For        Remove the Reference to      ---

ObjID 75                     11801 ObjID 79                     11801 ObjID 41                     11803 ObjID 43                     11803 ObjID 48                     11803 ObjID 247                    11804 Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition, SR-1:      For        Remove the Reference to      ---

ObjID 84                     12201 ObjID 88                     12201 ObjID 42                     12203 ObjID 44                     12203 ObjID 49                     12203 ObjID 260                    12204  Save the File. Make sure that the file type is Text.

After you finish these steps, the Office Assistant component is not installed and does not appear in the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel icon for any user who performs an installation of Office 97 using the modified setup table file (for example, you may call this file Custom.stf).

For more information about using custom setup table files with Office 97, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

158281 OFF97 Err Msg: "Setup Error 544"

Additional query words: off97 modify edit

Keywords: kbhowto kbsetup KB165725

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