Why is Office Assistant required?"

R

Rev Anderson

Since I have not used an Office Assistant since Office 97 I did not install
it with Office 2003.

But, every time I open an application it pops up with a notice that there is
no office assistant installed and that I need to install one.

I know it is not installed and I do not plan on installing one.

How do I stop this annoying pop-up, besides installing an object that I will
never use?

Thanks
 
B

bxb7668

Go into Help for the office application. I searched for "deactivate
office assistant" and found the article "Hide or show the Office
Assistant ".

Brian
 
R

Rev Anderson

Yes, but that still requires the Office Assistant to be installed and the
Office Assistant will continue to be loaded and running as a process in the
background, just in case you decide you might want to use it.
 
H

Harald

Hi

I am running office 2003 and have not installed the assistent. If I go to
the menu "Help | show the office assistant" I get an error message telling
me that the assistant has not been installed and I need to run setup to
activate. But I don't get it every time I open an application.

In
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\Assistant\
I have two values
AsstState=26 (Hex)
CurrAsstState=26 (Hex)

Maybe you can add and see if that change something

Harald
 
R

Rev Anderson

I'll try the Registry edit in a little while.

The exact message I get is is in a dialog box titled "Office Assistant" and
says:

There are no Office Assistant character files present on the system. Please
run Setup in maintenance mode and install at least one character.

I don't understand why this started popping up. It wasn't there when I
first installed Office 2003. It only started after I did a Help search
online for toolbar information.
 
R

Rev Anderson

I went to the page you have set-up as a hot link.

However the information it has is not correct for the XP Pro Registry. The
HKEY_LOCAL_USER key does not exist in my registry. Plus, it tells you to
"Delete each DWORD value within the key."

Talk about inviting disaster! Doing that can end up crashing a system.

Thanks for the input.
--
Life is an adventure with God leading.


Tom [Pepper] Willett said:
Try this:
Disable The Office Assistant Through Registry
http://channels.lockergnome.com/win...e_the_office_assistant_through_registry.phtml

Tom
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