How to remove the Office Assistants from Office 97

Document number: 15140

 

To remove the Office Assistant from your computer, follow these steps: ( Note: The instructions given in the Microsoft Office 97 help about how to remove the Office Assistants are not correct.)

  1. Close down any open Microsoft Office 97 applications. You may leave the Microsoft Office shortcut bar up.

  2. Launch Windows Explorer.

  3. Navigate to c:\Apps\Office97\Office\Actors.

  4. Delete all of the *.act files in that directory, but do NOT remove the Actors directory.

 

The Microsoft Office Assistant should no longer appear in your Microsoft Office applications.

 

For information about re-adding Office Assistants to your system after they have been removed, see Eureka! document 15141 — How to reinstall or re-add the Office Assistants to Office 97.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by the PeopleSoft Knowledge Management Team.
Copyright © 1999 All rights reserved.
Created: kcw 06/20/1998
Revised: jem 01/25/1999