Office: Professional Edition Setup Leaves Standard STF File

• Microsoft Office Professional for Windows 95, version 7.0
• Microsoft Office 97 for Windows, Professional Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you install a Professional Edition of Microsoft Office over a previous installation of a Standard Edition of Microsoft Office, the Standard Edition's setup table file (STF file) is not removed from its folder on your hard drive:

   Version of
   Office      STF File       Folder
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
   97          Off97std.stf   Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Setup
   7.0         Off95std.stf   MSOffice\Office\Setup

STATUS

This behavior is by design of the Setup programs of the Professional Editions of Microsoft Office 97 and Microsoft Office for Windows 95.

MORE INFORMATION

There are no pointers within the registry that reference the Off95std.stf and Off97std.stf files after an installation of Microsoft Office Professional 7.0 or 97. However, if you double-click this file, Setup for the standard version of Office is started if the .stf extension is associated with Acme.exe. If the .stf file is not associated with Acme.exe or some other application, then Setup may display the error message that Setup could not access the required initialization file, which is a file from Office Standard. If the .stf file has been associated with Microsoft Excel, then no error is produced; instead the .stf file is opened in Microsoft Excel.