Installing Office 97

[kennyheatrick]

I have performed an installation of office 97 on a computer running windows 2000 Professional.

The problem is that I did the installation logged on with my user account and as such when any other user logs on they do not have office in the start/programs menu.

How do I get office to be in the start/programs menu for everyone who logs onto the network using this PC??

Thanks for any help.

Kenny

 

[ethos]

If you go to start/settings/taskbar
then select taskbar.

you can creeate it here...
or alternativly use explorer.

C:/windows/desktop/programs

and create shortcuts here instead!

hope this helps.
ETHOS. X-)
A woman once drove me to drink and computers...
and I never had the decency to thank her.
Ethos777@hotmail.com

 

[ElijahBaley]

My understranding is that you will have to re-install office whilst logged on as the administrator

Only then will the program be avaliable to other (local) users.
"Never look a Greek, bearing gifts in the mouth"

G

 

[kennyheatrick]

Guys

neither of these suggestions work....remember it is win2k professional that I am talking about.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

Kenny

 

[JVFriederick]

If I understand your question correctly :

Log on as administrator.
Right click the start button, select explorer.
This will pop you deep into the users profiles section.
Find and then click on All Users\Start Menu\Programs

Now open up another explorer window, and find Program Files\Microsoft Office
There should already be shortcuts in this directory, just copy them to the other window you have open. If not, create shortcuts to the office .exe files and move the new shortcuts.

Test the update by clicking on Start Programs . . . you should see those little guys now.

I think under your login you will have two sets of each. Before you leave administrator you may wish to delete the ones under your profile.

Hope this helps.

 

[robbo247]

Actually, there is an article on support.microsoft.com relating to this. It advises to copy the microsoft office directory from \documents and settings\%whateveryouinstalledas%\start menu to \documents and settings\all users\start menu.

This does work, but remember to reset the NTFS persmissions on the directory after you copy it.

Robbo