On 4/6/01 8:06 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/6/01 5:01 PM, "Clayton Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Here's another curiosity:
>>
>> When I tried to run the SR updater, it failed even though I was sure all the
>> original files had the right names and were in the right places. What I'd
>> forgotten was that I put Stefano Capello's Entourage Email Archive in the
>> Office folder. Once I removed it, the SR updater ran with no problems.
>>
>> This does raise the question whether the updater would delete, preserve, or
>> balk at user-defined templates that are also in the Office folder. I have
>> yet to see how closely the update matches the custom installation I spent so
>> long creating in the first place. On launching Word the first time after
>> running the updater, I saw it install a dozen useless TrueType fonts, so I
>> think I'm in for another round of pruning throughout the Office suite.
>>
> There's no problem putting things in the Microsoft User Data folder, which
> is where such 'extras" belong. I wonder if there would even be a problem
> with extra stuff in the outer Microsoft Office 2001 folder - is that where
> you had the archiver? But the inner "Office" folder is sacrosanct: it's
> more-or-less the "system" folder for Office 2001.
>
> Of course there's no problem with putting custom Word Templates in the
> templates folder - but IMO MS should change its location to the MUD folder
> so you don't throw them out by accident.
You beat me to it Paul! I was just going to say that the default for all
custom templates ought to be the MUD folder. Not only would it help keeps us
from deleting them inadvertently (including the "Normal" template), but it
would make it a hesk of a lot easier to go from one machine to another.
Cb
cbrady @ tulane.edu
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