OFF97: Some Features Are Not Functional When System Policies Are Enabled

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For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit includes a collection of templates that you can use with the System Policy Editor to specify user policies for the Office programs.

You can edit the registry by using System Policy Editor (Poledit.exe) or Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). However, check with your network administrator before you make any changes to the registry.

If you are using the Office 97 system policy templates that are included in the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit, you must use the version of the System Policy Editor that is included in the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit or the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit.

When you use the policy template that is included in the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit to create system policies for your users, registry entries are made under the following key

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\<app>
				

where <app> is the application for which the policy is set.

Under circumstances in which no policy is used for the application, no initial registry entry is created for <app> until the application is run. At that time, the default registry entries for the application that is run are created. When policies are used, these registry entries determine that entries already exist for <app> and no additional entries are created. This behavior prevents users from using some of the functionality of the program.