Hey.

Is it possible to combine the 5 Office 2003 Professional cds into a single directory, so some of the dublicate files is there only once?

I remember having seen a guide to this somewhere, but cannot find it.

The program you are talking of is called Office 2003 AIO Maker.

Office.2003.AIO.Maker Guide For People Who Have Got Individual

5 CDs (1.2 GB) Of Office 2003.

o------------------------ I N S T A L L N O T E S ------------------------o

1. Open the .rar with winrar

2. Run O2k3.AIO.mht and Follow Guide

Is an excellent little program, about 1.7 meg.

Download Link:

h**p://rapidshare.de/files-en/427189/Office_1_.2003.AIO.Maker.rar.html

Replace ** with tt.

Enjoy.

Only prob though once you slipstream the service pack you'll be lucky to put it back on a cd. Ive got mine down to 900mb standard with sp1 on a dvd.

Thats not what I am talking about, but I figured it out myself.

I did an administrative install to my harddrive of all 5 cds, then I applied service pack 1 for all the cds.

Then I moved it all together in another folder, and said yes to overwrite files.

Then, instead of using setup.exe to install, I use the msi files instead.

The result: Installs for Office, Onenote, Frontpage, Visio and Project, all with SP1 applied ..... 783MB

Are you referring to this guide? - link

why do people put ** in their links? it's really rather dumb...

Are you referring to this guide? - link

not exactly.

I have them all combined in 1 folder.

The problem is that when having done an administrative installation (needed to slipstream SP1), all the files have been extracted, and there are many duplicated files on each cd, by copying them into a single folder and overwriting all files, I have not duplicates, and saves diskspace

I have them all combined in 1 folder.

That can lead to problems later on. Keeping the folder how they were, and using cdimage.exe to optimize the ISO, would be a better approach but it depends on individual preferences - if it floats your boat, its fine.

why do people put ** in their links? it's really rather dumb...

That practice comes from warez boards. Posting direct links is a liability to them (since the server can track-back and find the referrer), so people resort to using code tags and methods like "h**p" (fudging of links).

i never knew that... cool i learned something new today.

just a random note regarding that AIO Maker. There is a repack of it that makes sure all filestamps stay the same. So if you are looking for the AIO Maker, try to get the repack.

i always wondered that too...

Just do what I did...made 2 CDs...combined Office/Frontpage and OneNote/Project/Visio all SP1's

Here is the 2nd CD.....or you can just do the DVD thing...course I used CD Menu Pro for the Custom Install.

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