OFF97: How To Install Bookshelf Basics to an Admin Install

ID: Q161819

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SUMMARY

This article contains the text of the document, Bookshlf.doc, which is located in the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit. It explains how to install the files for Microsoft Bookshelf Basics to an administrative installation point of Microsoft Office 97 so that a user can reference the Bookshelf Basics from a workstation computer.


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WARNING: This modification may not be supported by Microsoft. Microsoft support professionals will support some modifications to a BACKUP copy of the SETUP.STF file. Note also that while support professionals may help customers modify specific lines of an STF, we will not rewrite the entire file in order to achieve a desired configuration. As a general rule, support is limited to options that can normally be changed by a user during a standard installation of the application.

Adding Microsoft Bookshelf Basics to an Office 97 Administrative Installation Point

When Office 97 is used to make an administrative installation point, the files for Microsoft Bookshelf Basics are not included. This behavior occurs because adding 270 megabytes (MB) of Bookshelf files to the installation point would make the installation too large for most of our customers. In addition, the files could not use Microsoft System Management Server to distribute Office 97 installation packages to users.

However, if you are not using Microsoft System Management Server, and you have enough room on your administrative installation point, you can add Bookshelf Basics manually. Once this is done, users can run Bookshelf Basics from that point.

Additionally, you can place Bookshelf Basics on a separate share point to allow users to run Bookshelf Basics from that share point. The user still requires permission to the administrative installation point to run Bookshelf Basics, in addition to requiring permission to the separate Bookshelf share point.

NOTE: The following instructions are recommended only for administrators who have a familiarity with administrative installations and editing the STF file. For more information, see 6, "Customizing Client Installations" in the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit.

WARNING: Off97Pro.stf is a tab-delimited file that relies heavily on positional parameters, and can be easily damaged by modifying it with the wrong editor.

To add Microsoft Bookshelf Basics to your administrative installation point, follow these steps:

  1. Create an administrative installation point on a hard disk that has at least 600 MB free space. If the administrative installation point has already been created, there should be at least 270 MB free space remaining.


  2. On the Office 97 compact disc (CD), locate the folder named Books.


  3. Copy the Books folder into the folder on your administrative installation point that contains the main Office applications files. For example, copy the Books folder to MSOffice\Books on the server.


  4. Make a backup copy of the Off97pro.stf file.


  5. Open Off97pro.stf in WordPad or another text editor that will not alter tabs and spaces.


  6. Locate the "Office Install Modes" section. In that section you find two lines. One line contains the words "Network" and "AppMainDlg," and the other line contains the words "Floppy" and "AppMainDlg." The lines also include numbers. The numbers in your file may differ from the sample lines below. 
    
       43   Network   AppMainDlg   53 55 59 : 50 65   No %1
       44   Floppy    AppMainDlg   56 58 61  63 : 50 65 No %1


  7. Change line 54 by inserting 10101 between 130 and 10401. Change line 55 by inserting 10101 between 115 and 430. Change line 57 by inserting 10103 between 125 and 8202.


  8. Search for the line containing the phrase "Bookshelf Basics Workstation Install." The line may vary slightly from the sample line below: 
    
       9503  Yes  Bookshelf Basics Workstation Install Microsoft Bookshelf
    Basics includes a dictionary, thesaurus, and a book of quotations. These references can be accessed directly from within Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Group 9506 %d,%d


  9. Note the number at the beginning of the line. In the sample above, it is 9503.


  10. Find the following line. The numbers may vary from the sample below: 
    
      57   &Run from Network Server  Group 77 90 206 69 276 306 198 105 331
       112 122 10003 97 2203 114 7802  off97_bb.dll,114  No


  11. Take the number you noted in step 9, and add it to this line. It should be added so that it is next to last in the long list of numbers between the words "Group" and "off97_bb.dll." Use spaces to separate the numbers, not tab characters. For example, insert the number 9503 in the list of numbers: 
    
      57  &Run from Network Server  Group  77 90 206 69 276 306 198 105 331
        112 122 10003 97 2203 114 9503 7802  off97_bb.dll,114  No


  12. Do not change anything else in the file. Save the file as a Text Document with the changes you just made.


To use Microsoft Bookshelf Basics from a separate installation point, follow these steps:

  1. Create an administrative installation point. You do not need additional disk space because no additional files will be added to this folder.


  2. On the Office 97 CD, locate the folder named Books.


  3. Copy the Books folder to the installation point you have selected. The Books folder requires approximately 270 MB.


  4. Follow steps 4 through 11 in the previous procedure.


  5. With the STF file still open in WordPad, search for the following line. Note that the numbers in your file may differ from the sample line below. 
    
    9807  AddRegData """CURRENT"", ""Software\Microsoft\Microsoft
      Reference\Bookshelf\96L\Options"", ""Drive"", ""%s"", ""REG_SZ""
      "%s,%d


  6. Replace the %s that is contained in double quotes with the location of the share point containing the books folder: 
    
    9807  AddRegData """CURRENT"", ""Software\Microsoft\Microsoft
      Reference\Bookshelf\96L\Options"", ""Drive"",
      ""\\MyServer\BookShare"", ""REG_SZ"" " %s,%d


  7. Do not change anything else in the file. Save the file with the changes you made.


Using Microsoft Bookshelf Basics from a Separate Installation Point (Alternate Method, Requiring User Participation)

If your users know the location of the Bookshelf Basics files, you can have them enter that information themselves. To do so, follow the steps in the first procedure. When the user attempts to start Bookshelf for the first time, a dialog box that prompts you for the location of the Bookshelf files appears. The user may type a valid network path into the text box of this dialog box. The system remembers the location and does not display the prompt again unless the Bookshelf files are moved from the server.


REFERENCES

"Microsoft Office Resource Kit," version 97

Additional query words: 97 off97 8.00 


Keywords          : offwinsetup offadmin offork 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
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Last Reviewed: July 7, 1999