Article ID: 165955
Article Last Modified on 1/27/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 97 Service Pack 1
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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, WordMail is not available for installation and none of the WordMail components, including the templates, 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 94 305 ObjID 275 302 ObjID 276 302 ObjID 285 12802 ObjID 7202 7301 ObjID 7203 7301 ObjID 7204 7301
Microsoft Office 97 Professional Edition, SR-1:
For Remove the Reference to ---------------------------------- ObjID 103 318 ObjID 288 315 ObjID 289 315 ObjID 298 13102 ObjID 7302 7401 ObjID 7303 7401 ObjID 7304 7401
Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition:
For Remove the Reference to ---------------------------------- ObjID 84 217 ObjID 187 214 ObjID 188 214 ObjID 197 11702 ObjID 6802 6901 ObjID 6803 6901 ObjID 6804 6901
Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition, SR-1:
For Remove the Reference to ---------------------------------- ObjID 93 230 ObjID 200 227 ObjID 201 227 ObjID 210 12102 ObjID 7002 7101 ObjID 7003 7101 ObjID 7004 7101
- Save the File. Make sure that the file type is Text.
After you finish these steps, the Wordmail 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"
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