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At 08:08 PM 7/22/99 -0500, Mary McWilliams Johnson wrote:
>I very badly need to load SR2 for Office 97. I downloaded Odesp2.exe,
which
>I understand to be the SR2 patch for Word97 running on NT.
>
>But when I tried to install it, I got a message telling me I had to
>install Microsoft Office Developer Edition Tools on my system before I
>could install the SR2 patch.
>
>Please tell me--
>
>- why I need the Microsoft Office Developer Edition
>- where I can find the Microsoft Office Developer Edition
>
>Tools. I've searched the Microsoft Web site for an hour, without success.
Did you install the SR1 patch? I suspect "Microsoft Office Developer
Edition" might be a euphemism for that. You need to have SR1 installed
before you can install SR2, I think.
If you don't have SR1, you can either do a double-patch, or you can get a
copy of the full SR2 edition for free by calling Microsoft at 800/360-7561.
Tell them you want the SR2 replacement disk, _not_ the patch disk.
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