Updating an Office 4.0 Network Installation to Office 4.2

• Microsoft Office for Windows, version 4.2, 4.3

SUMMARY

When you install Microsoft Office 4.2 or 4.3 on a server and the server contains an installation of Microsoft Office 4.0, you must install to an empty directory on the network server in order keep from updating network files that may still be in use.

How you decide to update the workstation will affect the way you need to install Office. You can uninstall version 4.0 from each workstation and install the new version from the server, or you can update the workstation from the Office directory.

Depending on how you decide to update the workstations, do one of the following:

• Install the new version of Office to a new server directory.

  NOTE: Be aware that when you use this method, you must uninstall 4.0 from each individual workstation and then install the new version from the directory on the server. This procedure may take some time.

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• Make sure that all users are not on the system and delete the Office 4.0 directory from the server before you install the new version.

MORE INFORMATION

If you do not uninstall 4.0 from each workstation, you may run into the following issues:

• OLE objects may have more than one entry in the REG.DAT file to reflect earlier versions of Office applications. For instance, if you select

     'Excel Macrosheet' (an Excel 4.0 object) under Insert Object, Word 6.0
     embeds an Excel 5.0 workbook. (This change to Microsoft Excel 5.0 may be
     unexpected.)
  
  

• If the Office 4.0 installation ran shared applications from the local hard drive, and the new version runs them from the network, an earlier version of a tool may be started when the user inserts objects. Because the REG.DAT entries for the local tools are still valid, they are not updated to point to the new tool on the server.
• Old program icons (such as Q+E and Dialog Editor) are still in the program group, though their paths may no longer be valid.