OFF97: How to Install Program Shortcuts to a Folder

• Microsoft Office 97 for Windows, Professional Edition

SUMMARY

By default, when you install Microsoft Office 97 for Windows on your computer, program shortcuts for the Microsoft Office 97 programs (Microsoft Excel 97, Microsoft Word 97, and so on) are created in the Programs folder of your Start menu.

This article explains how to configure the Microsoft Office 97 Setup program so that program shortcuts are created in a subfolder of the Programs folder ("Microsoft Office", for example).

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WARNING: The following steps are not supported by Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS). Under normal circumstances, only modifications made to setup table files by the Network Installation Wizard (NIW) are supported by Microsoft, but the NIW cannot make the necessary modifications in this case. Use the following steps with caution.

NOTE: The following steps work only if you have first performed an administrative installation ("setup /a") of Microsoft Office 97 to a server on your network. If you are performing a standalone installation using the Microsoft Office 97 compact disc, you cannot use the following steps.

You can control where the Microsoft Office 97 Setup program creates program shortcuts by editing the setup table file (STF) used by the setup program. By default, this file is called Off97pro.stf; however, if you have run the Network Installation Wizard to customize your setup, the setup table file may have a different name.

Before performing the following steps, make a backup copy of the Off97pro.stf file stored on your server. Change the backup copy's name to "Backup.stf" and do not open or edit it for any reason.

1. On the Start menu, click Run. In the Open edit box, type "write" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK.

2. On the File menu, click Open. In the File Name edit box, type the path to your server and share, followed by the name of the setup table file that you want to edit, for example

          \\myserver\myshare\off97pro.stf
   

          -or-
   

          \\myserver\myshare\custom.stf
   

   and then, click Open.

3. On the Edit menu, click Replace.

4. In the Find What edit box, type a value from the first column of the following table. Type a value from the second column of the table into the Replace With edit box. Then, click Replace All.

         Find what   Replace with
         -----------------------------------
         %571        %571\Microsoft Office
         %1117       %1117\Microsoft Office
         %7229       %7229\Microsoft Office
         %8221       %8221\Microsoft Office
         %9672       %9672\Microsoft Office
         %10840      %10840\Microsoft Office
         %11964      %11964\Microsoft Office
   
      Add the following line if you have performed a Run from Server 
      installation (this will install the icon for Microsoft Access:
         %583        %583\Microsoft Office
   
   

5. Repeat step 4 until all values in the table have been replaced.

6. On the File menu, click Save. Click Text Document. Then, once the file has been saved, click Exit on the File menu.