ACC97: Wizards Not Recognized as Being Installed Locally

ID: Q201791

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SYMPTOMS

If you have completed a custom installation of Microsoft Access or Microsoft Office on a Novell Netware server and you modified the STF file to specify that the Access wizards be installed locally, when you try to use the Access wizards, you may receive the following error message:

Microsoft Access can't find the wizard...


CAUSE

Microsoft Access does not recognize that the wizard file, wzmain.mde, is installed locally.


RESOLUTION

Repeat the custom setup procedure and include the executable file, Msaccess.exe, with those files to be installed locally.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Access 97. This problem no longer occurs in Microsoft Access 2000.


MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about copying the wizards locally, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q174742 How to Install Wizards Locally Rather Than on Server.
Q178330 How to Install Wizards Locally [Standalone Network Setup]
Q178331 How to Install Wizards Locally [OFF97 SR1 Network Install]


REFERENCES

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Additional query words: pra 


Keywords          : kb3rdparty kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: June 1, 1999