Actually, to turn the office assistant off in Office 97, you don't need to change the registry. You just need to rename the Actors folder. I have instructions for doing this here: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/office_assistant.htm Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jane McQuilkin Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:05 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Office Assistant - registry setting Hello, I'm being driven insane by an Office Assistant in Word97 that keeps appearing each time I logon (it's running on Win2k terminal server). I expect there must be a registry setting that isn't being saved correctly. Does anyone know what the registry setting is to turn the Office Assistant off? Or any other good advice... Jane ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************