Hi Remo, I'm theorizing here but ...
According to the KB article that describes how to manually remove Office X (<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312172>), all Office files are either in the app folder or the Microsoft Preferences folder or the MUD. When you uninstall/reinstall Office, the preferences are recreated so that shouldn't matter. As for the MUD, it remains untouched by an uninstall/reinstall, so that shouldn't matter either. So it would seem that the only files that *would* matter in the situation you describe are in the app folder. On the other hand, if you had to do an Office uninstall/reinstall because you were having problems with Office, I would think you'd want to install each updater separately to be sure that a faulty updater installation was not the cause of the original problem. If the reinstall were for reasons unrelated to Office (say you had to wipe your HD), I don't see why it wouldn't work. In that case, you could also back up and reinstall your prefs and MUD. I may have missed something here, but that's my theory. Beth On 9/8/03 9:43 AM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to make a backup of my Office X app folder so that, in the event I > need to reinstall, I can just drag-install the Office folder and have the > fully-patched Office (10.1.5 as of this writing). Do the Office updaters > modify anything outside of the "Microsoft Office X" folder? > > -Remo Del Bello -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
