OFF4: MOM Does Not Support Environment Variables

 Last reviewed: September 16, 1996
Article ID: Q131674
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Office for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.2, 4.2c, 4.3, 4.3c
  • Microsoft Office for Windows NT, version 4.2

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Office Manager (MOM), you cannot customize the Program Item Properties (location, parameters, or working directory) of a program to use an MS-DOS environment variable. This is true for both built-in program items, as well as custom program items.

MORE INFORMATION

You can currently use MS-DOS environment variables (%variables%) in Program Manager of Microsoft Windows version 3.1 for Program Properties items. Novell Netware users can use this feature to specify a user variable ("%user%") for a user directory.

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q84122
   TITLE     : Setting Allowing Each User to Have Personal Default
               Directory

   ARTICLE-ID: Q110731
   TITLE     : Office: Changing the Working Directory for an Office Program

   ARTICLE-ID: Q121866
   TITLE     : Using Startup Switches for Application in MOM

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Additional reference words: 4.00 4.20 4.20c 4.30 4.30c




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Last reviewed: September 16, 1996
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