OFF4: MOM Does Not Support Environment Variables

• 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:

Q84122 Setting Allowing Each User to Have Personal Default Directory

Q110731 Office: Changing the Working Directory for an Office Program

Q121866 Using Startup Switches for Application in MOM

Additional query words: 4.20c 4.30c

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:4.0,4.2,4.2c,4.3,4.3c; :4.2
Platform : WINDOWS
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