OFF97: Shared Apps Removed From Msapps Folder

• Microsoft Office 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Office for Windows, versions 4.2, 4.3

SYMPTOMS

When you run the setup program for Microsoft Office 97 and you click No to the prompt asking whether to remove your earlier version of Microsoft Office, shared applications from your earlier version of Microsoft Office 4.x are removed anyway.

RESOLUTION

If the Microsoft Office 97 setup program removes some of the shared applications from an earlier version of Microsoft Office, you do not have to reinstall the files from the earlier version of Microsoft Office. The Microsoft Office 97 setup program is designed to remove any earlier versions of the shared applications if it is going to install a newer version. This way, the registry remains up-to-date and there is no conflicting information.

NOTE: If you are using a program from your earlier version of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word version 6.0 for example, and you want to use a shared application, such as Equation Editor, the 32-bit version of Equation Editor that is installed with Microsoft Office 97 is used, despite the fact Microsoft Word 6.0 is a 16-bit program.

Do NOT reinstall the shared applications from your earlier version of Microsoft Office. This resets the Windows registry to these versions and they cannot be used by Microsoft Office 97.

STATUS

This is by design of the Microsoft Office 97 setup program.

MORE INFORMATION

The shared applications in Microsoft Office version 4.x are installed, by default, in the \Windows\Msapps folder. If you perform a complete installation of this earlier version of Microsoft Office, you have the following shared application folders (and the necessary files and programs to run the shared applications) installed in the \Windows\Msapps folder:

   Artgalry
   Equation
   Grphflt
   Msgraph5
   Msinfo
   Msquery
   Orgchart
   Proof
   Sheetcnv
   Textconv
   Wordart

   Grphflt
   Proof
   Sheetcnv
   Textconv
   Wordart