Back to "Microsoft Office Assistants"
Once you get the file down to your harddrive, it's time to install. Just to confuse you, the classical Office Assistants are located in another directory/folder than where the ActiveX-based assistants, such as the NerdBird, is supposed to be.
You ought to close your Office 2000 programs, but it isn't really necessary.
Locate your Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Actors folder. In a typical
Windows NT installation, the path will look something like this:
C:\WinNT\Profiles\[username]\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Actors. In 95/98, the path
will be somewhat similar (usually just replace WinNT with Windows).
Copy nerdbird.acs into this folder.
Notice, this means that the NerdBird must be installed for every user that wants to use it (hey, megabytes are cheap nowadays!).
Reboot Windows. Nah, just kidding! (no, you don't have to reboot just to install an assistant!)
If you closed your Office 2000 programs, it's safe to start them now.
The NerdBird should now appear in the Office Assistant gallery along with the original Microsoft assistants.
A few users have reported trouble when downloading the NerdBird
with Netscape. The file downloaded turns out to have anoter size than the
original assistant-file on the server, and is unreadable - hence useless - from
Office. No such problems have been encountered with Internet Explorer. Since
Office 2000 requires Internet Explorer 5, I suggest you try using the IE5
installed instead of Netscape, if you should get any problems with a
"Netscape" NerdBird.
If you do use Netscape, download it and it doesn't work, and later download it
with IE and it does work, please drop me a note with the following info:
Netscape version (version number and language) and operating system. I'm trying
to collect enough details to report this to Netscape.
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