How to reinstall or re-add the Office Assistants to Office 97

How to reinstall or re-add the Office Assistants to Office 97

Document number: 15141

To re-add the Office Assistant to your computer, follow these steps:

Close down all running Microsoft Office 97 applications, except the shortcut bar. You may leave the shortcut bar running.
Open Lotus Notes, then open the Software Library by clicking the bookmark link.

If you don't have the Software Library bookmark see document 16250 — How to add the Software Library database link to Lotus Notes for instructions on installing the Software library bookmark.

Click the Standard Software Package Installs icon.
Click By Package Name. This view will probably already be showing as it is the default view.
Scroll until you see the entry named Microsoft Office - All Versions and single click to open it.
Click on the Office Assistants button.WinInstall may take a few minutes to finish installing.

Note: The instructions given in the Microsoft Office 97 help file for re-adding the Office Assistants is NOT correct for standard PeopleSoft computers.

All of the standard PeopleSoft Microsoft Office Assistants should be enabled on your computer. For information about available characters, see Eureka! document 15102 — About Office Assistants at PeopleSoft.

For information about removing the Office Assistant from your standard PeopleSoft computer, see Eureka! document 15140 — How to remove the Office Assistants from Office 97.