Word 98 Users: Help Please!

[Beth Rosengard]

If you're a Word 98 user or have it installed somewhere or know someone who
does, I could really use your help. I'm writing an article about
troubleshooting Word 2001 and Word 98 (which will eventually be published at
word.mvps.org) and I have no way of checking some Word 98 details.

Specifically, I need to know the exact locations of two Word 98 files:

Word Settings (8)
Microsoft Office Settings

In Word 2001, the paths for the comparable files look like this:

System folder/Preferences/Microsoft/Word Settings (9)
System folder/Preferences/Microsoft/Microsoft Office Settings

Are the paths the same in Word 98? If not, what are they?

Thanks very much for your help!

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[Hylton Boothroyd]

Specifically, I need to know the exact locations of two Word 98 files:
Word Settings (8)
Microsoft Office Settings

That may possibly depend on the OS under which it is run.

Although my iBook came with OS X on it, I rely 99.99% on Mac OS 9.2.2
installed on a separate partition. MS Office 98, with Word 98, is on
that partition.

The files

Word Settings (8)
Microsoft Office Settings (8)

appear only as two of the 670+ entries in

System Folderreferences

 

[Beth Rosengard]

That may possibly depend on the OS under which it is run.

Although my iBook came with OS X on it, I rely 99.99% on Mac OS 9.2.2
installed on a separate partition. MS Office 98, with Word 98, is on
that partition.

The files

Word Settings (8)
Microsoft Office Settings (8)

appear only as two of the 670+ entries in

System Folderreferences

Thanks much, Hylton! That confirms what I thought: There was no
"Microsoft" folder in Preferences until Office 2001.


--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[Gary Goldberg]

Thanks much, Hylton! That confirms what I thought: There was no
"Microsoft" folder in Preferences until Office 2001.

I can confirm this for my installation (originally OS 8.1, now OS 9.1).
I reinstalled Word98 (the only Word version I've had on this computer)
last fall and that's where these files are still

 

[Beth Rosengard]

I can confirm this for my installation (originally OS 8.1, now OS 9.1).
I reinstalled Word98 (the only Word version I've had on this computer)
last fall and that's where these files are still

Thanks, Gary!

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>