Setting location of Normal.dot in Office97

[ramian]

I'm trying to integrate Office97 into Windows XP Embedded. When I start word, I get the unable to save normal.dot error. It can't save normal.dot as it is on the CD itself. I know I can change the location of normal.dot from Word itself, but is there a registry setting I can change to have Word look at the RAMdrive for the normal.dot file? Either have it included in the registry hive or have it imported upon boot.

Thanks

cheers!

[ceez]

i think you can change the location of the normal.dot if you go to the options settings of word. I dont know if 97 has any options, but I know that I've seen it on office2k. take a look there.

[ramian]

As far as I know, Word97 does not have an option to select the location of Normal.dot within its options dialog. However, when it does prompt you and you choose a particular location to save it, subsequently it saves it there all the time (for that user at least). Now, it would be a bit pointless choosing a location from XPE as it won't get saved and I'll have to do it everytime I boot to XPE and run Word. What I'm looking for is a registry entry or a script of some sort which sets the location of normal.dot (to the RAMdrive) BEFORE Word starts so that when I exit from Word, it automatically saves the normal.dot to the RAMdrive.

anyone else?