OFF4: MOM Does Not Support Environment Variables

ID: Q131674

4.00 4.20 4.20c 4.30 4.30c WINDOWS kbtool kbusage

The information in this article applies to:

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:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q84122
   TITLE     : Setting Allowing Each User to Have Personal Default
               Directory

   ARTICLE-ID: Q110731
   TITLE     : Office: Changing the Working Directory for an Office Program

   ARTICLE-ID: Q121866
   TITLE     : Using Startup Switches for Application in MOM

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Additional reference words: 4.00 4.20 4.20c 4.30 4.30c

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Version           : 4.00 4.20 4.20c 4.30 4.30c
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: May 25, 1999