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Evahn Derkley
We have users currently on Windows NT4 and Office 2000 using roaming profiles.
We have developed a new SOE with Windows XP SP2 and Office 2003 SP1.
When a user with an existing NT4/Office2000 profile first logs on the new
SOE, the main problem is that the Word, Excel and Outlook templates and
macros are ignored and Office 2003 sets up new basic templates under the
user's profile/Application Data/Microsoft.
ie. a new NORMAL.DOT, a new EXCEL11.XLB (instead of EXCEL.XLB)
We don't have many or overly complex macros and have checked that the macros
and templates from Word 2000 are compatible with 2003. When we manually copy
the NORMAL.DOT from the old NT4 profile and overwrite the new one created by
Office 2003 everything seems fine.
Unfortunately, renaming EXCEL.XLB to EXCEL11.XLB does not restore the Excel
toolbar and icons we had setup pointing to various macros in the user's
PERSONAL.XLS file.
Outlook VBA also seems more involved but is at least limited to only a few
users so we can live fixing this manually.
The basic questions then are:
- Can we tell Office 2003 to use the existing NORMAL.DOT even though it
recognises it as Office 2000 so we don't have to manually or script the
update?
- Can we copy the toolbar and buttons in Excel from EXCEL.XLB to EXCEL11.XLB?
Ta
Evahn
We have developed a new SOE with Windows XP SP2 and Office 2003 SP1.
When a user with an existing NT4/Office2000 profile first logs on the new
SOE, the main problem is that the Word, Excel and Outlook templates and
macros are ignored and Office 2003 sets up new basic templates under the
user's profile/Application Data/Microsoft.
ie. a new NORMAL.DOT, a new EXCEL11.XLB (instead of EXCEL.XLB)
We don't have many or overly complex macros and have checked that the macros
and templates from Word 2000 are compatible with 2003. When we manually copy
the NORMAL.DOT from the old NT4 profile and overwrite the new one created by
Office 2003 everything seems fine.
Unfortunately, renaming EXCEL.XLB to EXCEL11.XLB does not restore the Excel
toolbar and icons we had setup pointing to various macros in the user's
PERSONAL.XLS file.
Outlook VBA also seems more involved but is at least limited to only a few
users so we can live fixing this manually.
The basic questions then are:
- Can we tell Office 2003 to use the existing NORMAL.DOT even though it
recognises it as Office 2000 so we don't have to manually or script the
update?
- Can we copy the toolbar and buttons in Excel from EXCEL.XLB to EXCEL11.XLB?
Ta
Evahn
