Bookshelf Basics disappears on upgrade from Office 97 to 2003

[Burton Mitchell]

I've upgraded my copy of Office 97 Professional to
supposedly the same product in the 2003 update. Things
are going swimmingly and I'm delighted to have euthanized
the Office Assistant. However, Office 97's Bookshelf
Basics collection (in particular the American Heritage
Dictionary and the Dictionary of Quotations) has
disappeared. I'm wondering if it's possible for Word 2003
to read that file if I transfer it from the Office 97 CD.
Word 2003 still seems to be able to access a hyphenation
dictionary (very important to me) and thesaurus (much less
so) of its own.

 

[Tech]

You can still use Book Shelf but it'll cost you 274mb's of hard drive space.
Copy the BOOKS and AAMSSTP to your hard drive. Make sure both folders
reside at the root level (e.g. C:\BOOKS and C:\AAMSSTP). Remove the
Office 97 cd and browse to the C:\AAMSSTP\APP folder and run BS96SE.exe.
When prompted for the CDROM location type C:\

That's it, it should work without the CD.
You do own the licensed copy of 97, right?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
You can still use Book Shelf but it'll cost you 274mb's of hard drive space.
Copy the BOOKS and AAMSSTP to your hard drive. Make sure both folders
reside at the root level (e.g. C:\BOOKS and C:\AAMSSTP). Remove the
Office 97 cd and browse to the C:\AAMSSTP\APP folder and run BS96SE.exe.
When prompted for the CDROM location type C:\

That's it, it should work without the CD.
You do own the licensed copy of 97, right?
-------------->>>>Sure do. And every time I had to

contend with the Office Assistant I wondered why I had to
pay for this %$^&*(& thing. Thanks for the Bookshelf
advice. --B. Mitchell