OFF97: Contents of the Small Business Edition Readme File

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Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition for Windows

SUMMARY

The Office compact disc for Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition for Windows contains a ReadMe.txt file in the root directory. The contents of the ReadMe.txt file are included in the "More Information" section in this article.

MORE INFORMATION

MICROSOFT OFFICE 97 SMALL BUSINESS EDITION README FILE

This document provides late-breaking or other information that is relevant to the Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition. For late-breaking information specific to an individual Office 97 product, see the readme file for that product: WdRead8.txt (Microsoft Word 97), XlRead8.txt (Microsoft Excel 97), OlReadme.txt (Microsoft Outlook 97), Readme.hlp (Microsoft Publisher 97), and Readme.txt (Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager 97).

INSTALLING MICROSOFT OFFICE 97 SMALL BUSINESS EDITION

Autorun

Every time the Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition CD is inserted into the CD-ROM drive, Autorun is launched. Clicking on a component button in Autorun will launch that component's setup.exe.

There are limitations with Autorun:

Autorun does not distinguish if the CD is inserted to access files rather than access Autorun. If, while working in an application, you are asked to insert the CD and find a specific file, Autorun will launch. Click the 'x' box in the upper-right corner of the Autorun window to close Autorun.
Autorun does not work with Windows NT 3.51, and may be incompatible with some CD-ROM drives on other systems. If the Autorun screen does not appear after inserting the CD, the setup programs may be started manually.

To start the setup for a particular component, perform one of the following steps:

In Windows Explorer or in File Manager, locate the directory of the application on the CD-ROM, and then double-click Setup.exe
For example, to start the setup for Microsoft Excel, find D:\Excel\Setup.exe.
In Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 4.0, click Run on the Start menu, and then type D:\Excel\setup.exe.
In Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51, click Run on the File menu, and then type D:\Excel\Setup.exe.

The locations of the various components are as follows:

Word 97 <drive_letter>:\Word\Setup.exe
Excel 97 <drive_letter>:\Excel\Setup.exe
Outlook 97 <drive_letter>:\Outlook\Setup.exe
Publisher 97 <drive_letter>:\Pub\Setup.exe
Financial Manager 97 <drive_letter>:\Sbfm\Setup.exe

To view the ValuPack Help file, locate the ValuPk8.hlp file in the ValuPack directory on the CD:

ValuPack <drive_letter>:\ValuPack\Valupk8.hlp

Error clicking links in ValuPack Help File

When accessing the ValuPack Help file through Autorun, some links may return the Windows Help error:

   Cannot find or run the file or program ..."

Installing ValuPack items may only work the first time the ValuPack Help file is accessed through Autorun. Once the ValuPack Help file is opened through AutoRun and closed, components may not be available through AutoRun. To install components from the ValuPack Help file in more than one session, double-click the ValuPk8.hlp file located in the ValuPack directory on the CD.

Installing Microsoft Publisher 97

36 of the 5000+ pieces of clipart provided by Publisher have dashes in their filenames and cannot be read by Windows NT 3.51. If Custom setup is selected, and the 'select all' option is chosen to install all the clipart to the hard drive, an error message will appear when setup tries to install each of these 36 files. The error will give the option to retry, ignore, or abort. To continue with the rest of the installation, click 'ignore' for each of these error messages. This problem will not be encountered when doing a 'Complete' install.

Reviewing the online guide "Doing Business on the Internet"

You must have IE3.0+ in order to review this online documentation. IE3.0+ does not support Windows NT 3.51 therefore this guide cannot be viewed on this platform.

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