Article ID: 158245
Article Last Modified on 5/23/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 4.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 4.3 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q158245
SYMPTOMS
When you run the setup program for Microsoft Office 97 and you click No to
the prompt asking whether to remove your earlier version of Microsoft
Office, shared applications from your earlier version of Microsoft Office
4.x are removed anyway.
RESOLUTION
If the Microsoft Office 97 setup program removes some of the shared
applications from an earlier version of Microsoft Office, you do not have
to reinstall the files from the earlier version of Microsoft Office. The
Microsoft Office 97 setup program is designed to remove any earlier
versions of the shared applications if it is going to install a newer
version. This way, the registry remains up-to-date and there is no
conflicting information.
NOTE: If you are using a program from your earlier version of Microsoft
Office, Microsoft Word version 6.0 for example, and you want to use a
shared application, such as Equation Editor, the 32-bit version of Equation
Editor that is installed with Microsoft Office 97 is used, despite the fact
Microsoft Word 6.0 is a 16-bit program.
Do NOT reinstall the shared applications from your earlier version of
Microsoft Office. This resets the Windows registry to these versions and
they cannot be used by Microsoft Office 97.
STATUS
This is by design of the Microsoft Office 97 setup program.
Additional query words: OFF97 8.00
Keywords: kbualink97 KB158245