Having wrestled with the dilema of how to get everything onto a CD for a corporate build and discovering that Office97 sr1 was 350-odd Mb and the sr2 package was about 80mb, I decided to try repackaging it using the SMS Installer from SMS v2.0.

The whole thing, including the SR2 update came in at a CD-friendly 47Mb - what's more, it installed in under 20 seconds.

I know that not everyone has access to repackaging tools, but last time I googled there were some free / cheap ones available and it's worth considering if space/time is at a premium.

That's all fine and dandy... but it doesn't really help others.

Do you think you could write a guide so that others might be able to follow your instructions?

Not to mention that there are people who can get the same with Office 2003....