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     MICROSOFT OFFICE 98 UNIQUE IDENTIFIER UPDATER
              INSTALLATION README FILE
                     MARCH 1999
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(c) 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

The Microsoft Office 98 Unique Identifier Updater addresses privacy 
concerns regarding the insertion of a unique identifier number in Office 98
documents. Once applied, the patch prevents Office 98 applications from
inserting a unique identifier number into Office documents.  

The following files are updated:
* Microsoft Office98

Important notes about this Updater:

* If you do not have a copy of the file "Microsoft Office 98" on your 
  target machine, you will be instructed to quit the updater. "Microsoft 
  Office 98" is required for any Office application to boot. If it is not 
  found, the updater assumes you do not have Office 98 installed and 
  therefore no update is necessary.

* It is not possible to directly update Office 98 if it is located on a 
  network volume.  You must run the Updater on a copy of Office 98 located 
  on a local disk, and then copy the updated version to your network 
  volume.

* If you have multiple copies of the file the updater is trying to patch, 
  you will be asked to choose which copy you want modified. You can run the 
  Updater  multiple times if you want to patch more than one copy of the 
  file.

* This copy of Microsoft Updater is designed to work only with the English 
  language version of Microsoft Office 98. If you try to run this patch 
  against other language versions, you will receive errors and your files 
  will not be properly updated. Check the Microsoft Office 98 web page at
  <http://www.microsoft.com/macoffice> for the version of the Microsoft 
  Office 98 Updater that matches your copy of Microsoft Office 98.

* We recommend you close other running applications before running this 
  Updater.

* New files created after this Updater has been applied will not contain
  extraneous data. Follow these steps to "clean" old files of any 
  extraneous data they might contain:

  1. Open the file.
  2. For Word documents only, choose Word Count from the Tools menu.  Click
     the Close button when the word count is finished.
  3. Choose Save As from the File menu
  4. Click the Save button.  When prompted, choose to Replace the existing 
     file.
  5. Choose Close from the File menu.