HOW TO: Customize the States and Setup Properties of a Transform for an MUI Pack in Office XP (309116)

SUMMARY

You might choose to install additional Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Packs after you install Office, or to install all MUI Packs separately from Office. You create an MUI Pack transform when you want to customize the way that a particular MUI Pack is installed.

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Customize the States and Setup Properties of a Transform for an MUI Pack

An advantage of deploying MUI Packs with Office is that you can customize language settings in your Office transform, which you cannot do with an MUI Pack transform. Settings that you can customize in an MUI Pack transform include feature states and setup properties.

NOTE: You customize default language settings in your Office deployment. You cannot include these settings in an MUI Pack transform. If you already deployed Office, you can modify language settings by using the Custom Maintenance Wizard with Office.

If you are deploying Office with the Multilingual User Interface Pack by using Windows 2000 IntelliMirror, you must include a separate transform for each MUI Pack, in which you set the CHECKINSTALLORDER setup property to False. By using IntelliMirror for your deployment, you cannot guarantee the order in which components are installed; therefore, MUI Packs might be installed before Office. Usually, this is disallowed. However, by setting this property, MUI Packs can be installed on a user's computer even if Office is not yet installed.

To customize the feature states and setup properties in a transform for an MUI Pack, follow these steps:

1. In the Custom Installation Wizard, on the Open MSI File page (p.2), type (or browse to) the name of the MSI file for the MUI Pack that you want to customize.
2. On the Set Feature Installation States page (p.6), open Office Shared Features.
3. By opening Proofing Tools, you can choose installation states for the spelling and grammar checkers, hyphenation, and thesaurus.
4. On the Modify Setup Properties page (p.9), choose or add setup properties that you want to include in the MUI Pack transform.

To modify an existing property, follow these steps:

1. Click the property, and then click Modify.
2. For example, click NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION, and then click Modify. Select Do not match feature states during installation from the drop-down list, and then click OK.
3. Click Add and type a property name and value. For example, type CHECKINSTALLORDER in the Name field and False in the Value field, and then click OK.

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