Microsoft KB Archive/925179

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FrontPage is not removed when you install a 2007 Office suite on a computer that is running an earlier version of Microsoft Office with FrontPage

Article ID: 925179

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2007

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Office Basic 2007
• Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
• Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
• Microsoft Office Professional 2007
• Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
• Microsoft Office Standard 2007
• Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007

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For a Microsoft Office 2003 version of this article, see 891154.

Important This article contains information about how to modify the registry. Make sure that you back up the registry before you modify it. Make sure that you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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INTRODUCTION

When you install a 2007 Microsoft Office suite on a computer that has an earlier version of Microsoft Office with FrontPage installed, FrontPage is not removed during the installation.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior for 2007 Office system products, remove the earlier version of Office. To do this, you can include this step as part of the installation process by modifying the Config.xml file in Notepad.

How to modify the Config.xml file

For more information about how to modify the Config.xml file, see the "Config.xml file in the 2007 Office system" topic in the 2007 Office Resource Kit. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/e16af71c-fed4-40da-a886-95e596c3999e1033.mspx

To modify the Config.xml file, follow these steps:

1. Locate the Config.xml file in the 2007 Office system product source. This file is located in the product folder whose name resembles xxxxxx.WW.
   
   Note In this file name, xxxxxx is the designation for the product. For example, Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 has a folder that is named "ProPlus.WW."
2. Copy the Config.xml file to the root of the source image so that the file is in the same folder as the Setup.exe file.
3. Open the file in Notepad.
   
   Note We recommend that you use Notepad because other text editors may corrupt the file.
4. Locate the following line: