Disable features introduced after Microsoft Word 97 setting

[Glenn Turner]

When we migrated to Office 2002, we set a Group Policy object to tick the
"Disable features introduced after" box with the setting as Microsoft Word 97.

Now, we want to untick it, but the GPO doesn't seem to work to disable it
again. We're using the word10.adm dated 28/08/01, but there doesn't seem to
be any difference in the version dated 21/01/2003. It should be working,
because other group policies are working.

It looks like the setting is stored in:

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Options

POLICY "Disable features not supported by Word 97"
PART "Check to enforce setting on; uncheck to enforce setting off" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME Word97Compat_120_1
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
END POLICY

We can disable the policy so that it's not configured, but trying to enforce
an untick isn't working. What we could do is leave it so that it's not
configured, and then manually send out a reg hack to our users to change
Word97Compat_120_1 to 0, but that would be a last resort if I can't find
another way.

I've verified that if I manually set the registry key in Policies, Word
recognizes the policy change. What I really want to do is delete the key
under policies, and edit the setting somewhere under
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word, but this seems to be kept under the
Data key, which contains a whole lot of other stuff besides this setting.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks,

Glenn

 

[Glenn Turner]

Please disregard my post. It *appeared* that Group Policies were working,
and they're not. The RSoP tool shows that the policy should be being
applied, but I deleted the policy key and only some policies are coming
through. Looks like there's a bigger problem to fix now.

Glenn