OFF97: Start Menu Shortcuts Change After Upgrade (169034)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q169034 SYMPTOMS
When you upgrade Microsoft Office 7.0 to Microsoft Office 97 and fail to
remove Office 7.0, the existing shortcuts on the Start Menu are updated to
point to the Office 97 programs.
CAUSE
The upgrade process does not create new shortcuts for Office 97 in addition
to the existing shortcuts for Office 7.0.
NOTE: This behavior is the same for the Professional and Standard editions
of Microsoft Office.
RESOLUTION
If you want to create shortcuts on the Start menu for both versions of
Microsoft Office, use one of the following methods.
Method 1
Move the Office 7.0 shortcuts before you upgrade to Office 97. To do this,
use the following steps:
- Using Windows Explorer, open the following folder
<Windows folder>\Start Menu\Programs
- On the File menu, point to New and click Folder.
- Name the folder "Microsoft Office 7.0" (without the quotation marks) and
press ENTER.
- Move all of the Office shortcuts from the location mentioned in step 1,
to the folder that you created in step 3.
Method 2
You can create shortcuts for Office 7.0 after you upgrade to Office 97. To
do this, use the following steps:
- Using Windows Explorer, open the following folder
<Windows folder>\Start Menu\Programs
- On the File menu, point to New and click Folder.
- Name the folder "Microsoft Office 7.0" (without the quotation marks) and
press ENTER.
- Double-click the Office 7.0 folder.
- On the File menu, point to New and click Shortcut.
- Use the Create Shortcut wizard to create shortcuts for the Microsoft
Office 7.0 programs.
NOTE: If you log on to Windows 95 with a password, you may need to browse
to the following location for both methods
<Windows folder>\Profiles\<username>\Start Menu\Programs
where <Windows folder> is the folder that contains Microsoft Windows.
For additional information, please see the following article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
132979
Office: Customizing Start Menu to Create Microsoft Office Menu
REFERENCES
For more information about adding shortcuts to the Start Menu, click Help
on the Start menu, select the Index tab and type the following text
shortcuts, adding to the Start menu
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "To add a program to
the Start or Programs menu" topic.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 1/28/2005 |
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| Keywords: | kbprb kbsetup KB169034 |
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