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Moved Office 97 to different server

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by proactivemale 1 view

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Office 97 was moved from one server to another. The problem is that when users access powerpoint, which is on their desktops, most of the clipart is not available. For some reason the program is pointing to the server that no longer hosts the application. I tried to reinstall the software but the same thing happens - error "can not access original servername". I tried to update the location of clipart but now a new problem popped up - the shortcut bar at the top of the screen now has 30 or so bullshit icons. That's not a big problem but the clipart is still not accessable. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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by poettone

The first thinng I would do is to install with all the options, not a typical setup but select all items and the clip art will load locally. Good Luck

by pan 13 x

open regedit and delete hkey-localmachine/software/microsoft/office delete the two folders 8.0 and 9.0. Reinstall office using the custom options and select the clip art for the second to last option. " I forget the name of the listing." installclip art to the local machine or select from from network.

by charles byrne

If all else fails and you have no other options, run office clean, remove all office components and reinstall office with the options you want.

It's found in the Valupack under offclean.
It's listed as offcln97.exe (on service release 2).

We had problems when we changed from a running Office from the server to the local
machine. It solved all of our problems, the
only thing was that we had to reconfigure the
user's settings (default dir, toolbars etc).

If it's one PC I'd try it,If it is several hundred PC's I'd think about it long and hard and seriously.

Charles

by parier

You can choose the path for clipart in word for the whole suite in TOOLS, OPTIONS, FILE LOCATIONS.

As for all the icons in the Office Bar, I saw some that were all black. I remember renaming the users registry USER.DAO to USER.DAT and rebooting, but that was windows 9x.

Hope this helps.

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