SUMMARY

When a user who does not have the Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components installed on their computer accesses a Web page that contains an Office 2003 Web Component, he or she may receive a message that is similar to the following:

If the Web page is on your intranet or on the Internet, you may have to manually modify the download location that is specified by the Click here to install the Office 2003 Web Components link. This article contains the methods to modify this information for computers that have to install the Office 2003 Web Components over an intranet and also over the Internet.

Note To use HTML documents that contain the Office Spreadsheet, Office PivotTable, or Office Chart components, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.01 or later. To browse a data access page that was created by using Microsoft Office Access 2003, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 or later.

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Installation Over an Intranet

By default, when you publish a Web page, the link to install the Office Web Components points to the location where you originally installed Office 2003. If the Office installation location was a network server that is accessible by all users in your organization, you may not have to make any modifications to your Web pages. However, if you want to you can set up your Web pages so that the link to install the Office 2003 Web Components points to any server on your network.

To specify the download location for the Office 2003 Web Components Setup program, you must define the Setup location when you design the component and before you save the Web page. To do this, follow these steps for the Office program that you are using to publish your Web pages.

Note You can specify either a file URL or an HTTP URL in these steps.

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Microsoft Office Excel 2003

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click the General tab, click Web Options, and then click the Files tab.
3. In the Office Controls area, follow these steps:
    
   1. Click to select the Download Office Web Components check box.
   2. In the Location box, type the path of the root of the Office 2003 share point, and then click OK.
      When Excel creates the Web page, the full path of Setup.exe for the Office 2003 Web Components installation is automatically created. For example, if you specify http://server/Officexp in the Location box, the path http://server/Officexp/Files/OWC/Setup.exe is written in the Web page.
4. Click OK.

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Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

When you insert one of the Office Web Components in a Web page, the path for the Web Components installer is automatically added. You can change this path by using the following steps, but this only changes the path on the active page. If you want to change the path for any page that you insert one of the Office Web Components into, follow the steps in the "Microsoft Office Excel 2003" section earlier in this article, or modify the registry information in the "Related Registry Information" section later in this article.

1. Right-click the component, and then click ActiveX Control Properties.
2. Click the Object Tag tab.
3. In the HTML box in the Alternative Representation area, scroll through the text, and then modify the path to \Files\OWC\Setup.exe.
4. Click Apply, and then click OK.

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Microsoft Office Access 2003

1. Open or create a data access page.
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
3. In the Web Options dialog box, click the Files tab.
4. In the Office Controls area, follow these steps:
   1. Click to select the Download Office Web Components check box.
   2. In the Location box, type the path of the Office 2003 share point.
      
      For example, if you specify http://server/Officexp in the Location box, the path http://server/Officexp/Files/OWC/Setup.exe is written in the Web page.
5. Click OK.

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Licensing Considerations

By default, if a user does not have Office 2003, Access 2003, Excel 2003, or FrontPage 2003 installed on their computer, and the user installs the Office Web Components, the user receives a Run-time Static license for the Office 2003 Web Components. This means that the user can view the controls on a Web page but cannot interact with the controls.

Organizations that own an Enterprise, Select, or Maintenance Agreement for Office 2003 and that plan to deploy Office 2003 in phases can permit early adopters of Office 2003 to share component-based Web pages with users who have not yet installed Office 2003. To do this, follow these steps to use the licensing mechanism that is supported by Internet Explorer:

1. Obtain a copy of Lpk_Tool.exe. Lpk_tool.exe that is included with Visual Studio (CD 2 of the Professional Edition and CD 3 of the Enterprise Edition). If you do not have Visual Studio, follow these steps:
   1. Go to the following Microsoft Web page
   2. Click Download.
   3. In the File Download dialog box, click Save.
   4. In the Save As dialog box, change the Save in box to your download files folder (or other location), click Create New Folder, type Lpk, and then press ENTER.
   5. With the Lpk folder selected, click Open.
   6. Click Save to save the Lpk_tool.exe file to your new Lpk folder.
   7. When the download is complete, click Close to close the Download dialog box.
   8. Click Start, and then click Run.
   9. In the Run dialog box, click Browse, and then locate your Lpk folder.
   10. Click Lpk_tool.exe, and then click Open.
   11. Click OK in the Run dialog box.
   12. Click Yes to agree to the license agreement.
   13. Extract the files to your Lpk folder.
       
       Note During the extraction process, the Lpk_tool.exe files are copied to the Lpktool subfolder in your Lpk folder.
   14. Click OK to close the installation complete dialog box.
2. Copy LPK_Tool.exe to a computer where the Office 2003 Web Components are already installed.
3. Double-click LPK_Tool.exe.
4. In the License Package Authoring Tool dialog box, click to select the following items in the Available controls list:
   • Microsoft Office Chart 11.0
   • Microsoft Office PivotTable 11.0
   • Microsoft Office Spreadsheet 11.0
   • Click Add, and then click Save & Exit.
   • In the Save As dialog box, specify a name for the .lpk file, and then click Save.
   • Click OK when you receive the message that advises you that the License Package file was created successfully.
   • Copy the .lpk file that you created into the same folder as the file that contains the Office 2003 Web Components on your Web server.
   • In a text editor, open the file that contains the Office 2003 Web Components.
   • Insert the following text in the <BODY> section of the document, and note that the text must appear in the first <OBJECT> tag in the <BODY>section:

     <OBJECT CLASSID = "clsid:5220cb21-c88d-11cf-b347-00aa00a28331">
     <PARAM NAME="LPKPath" VALUE="license.lpk">
     </OBJECT>

     Note The only text that you have to modify from the example is the name of the .lpk license file. The example uses License.lpk. Replace License.lpk with the path and name of the .lpk file that you created. Keep the Name property of the <PARAM> tag as "LPKPath", and set the Value property for the <PARAM> tag of the License Manager object to the LPK file name and path. This path may be a relative path but must not refer to a UNC share or to a URL on another domain.
     
     For example, assume that the HTML file is located on \\server\share\myPage.html, and assume that the license file is located one level deeper, on \\server\share\LPK\License.lpk. In this scenario, the HTML code will be as follows:

     <OBJECT CLASSID = "clsid:5220cb21-c88d-11cf-b347-00aa00a28331">
     <PARAM NAME="LPKPath" VALUE="LPK\License.lpk">
     </OBJECT>

     For additional information about how to use licensed ActiveX controls, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

     159923 HOWTO: Use Licensed ActiveX Controls in Internet Explorer

   • Save and close the document.

When a user who has the Office Web Components but not Office locates a Web page with an Office 2003 Web Component, the user can interact with the Office Web Component because of the license on the Web server.

For more information about licensing Microsoft ActiveX controls, visit the following Microsoft Web page:

For additional information about licensing considerations for the Office XP Web Components, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

288729 OFFXP: General Information About Licensing and Using Office XP Web Components

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Installation Over the Internet

By default, when you publish a Web page, the link to install the Office Web Components points to the location where you originally installed Office 2003. Therefore, if a user browses to your Web page but does not have the Office 2003 Web Components installed, the user cannot install the Office 2003 Web Components from your installation source.

To download the Office 2003 Web Components, visit the following Microsoft Download Center Web site:

You can modify your Web pages to reference this location for the installation of the Office 2003 Web Components.

To specify the Tools on the Web download location for the Office 2003 Web Components Setup program, you must define the location when you design the component and before you save the Web page. To do this, follow these steps for the Office program that you use to publish your Web pages.

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Excel 2003

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click the General tab, click Web Options, and then click the Files tab.
3. In the Office Controls area, follow these steps:
   1. Click to select the Download Office Web Components check box.
   2. In the Location box, type the path of the following Tools on the Web site, and then click OK:
      http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7287252c-402e-4f72-97a5-e0fd290d4b76&DisplayLang=en
4. Click OK.

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FrontPage 2003

When you insert one of the Office Web Components in a Web page, the path for the Web Components installer is automatically added. You can change this path by using the following steps, but this only changes the path on the active page. If you want to change the path for any page that you insert one of the Office Web Components into, follow the steps in the "Microsoft Office Excel 2003" section earlier in this article, or modify the registry information in the "Related Registry Information" section later in this article.

1. Right-click the component, and then click ActiveX Control Properties.
2. Click the Object Tag tab.
3. In the HTML box in the Alternative Representation area, scroll through the text, and then modify the path of the following download location on the following Microsoft Web site:
4. Click Apply, and then click OK.

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Access 2003: After You Open an MDB File

1. Create a data access page.
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
3. In the Options dialog box, click the General tab.
4. Click Web Options.
5. In the Web Options dialog box, click the Files tab.
6. In the Office Controls area, follow these steps:
   1. Click to select the Download Office Web Components check box.
   2. In the Location box, type the path of the following Tools on the Web Web site, and then click OK:
      http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7287252c-402e-4f72-97a5-e0fd290d4b76&DisplayLang=en

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Access 2003: Open a Data Access Page Directly

1. Open a data access page.
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
3. In the Web Options dialog box, click the Files tab.
4. In the Office Controls area, follow these steps:
   1. Click to select the Download Office Web Components check box.
   2. In the Location box, type the path of the following Tools on the Web Web site, and then click OK:
      http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7287252c-402e-4f72-97a5-e0fd290d4b76&DisplayLang=en

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Licensing Considerations

By default, if a user does not have Office 2003, Access 2003, Excel 2003, or FrontPage 2003 installed on their computer, and the user installs the Office Web Components, the user receives a Run-time Static license for the Office 2003 Web Components. This means that the user can view the controls on a Web page but cannot interact with the controls. This includes the Office Web Components that are downloaded from the Tools on the Web site.

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Related Registry Information

When you install Office 2003, the location that is used to install the Office 2003 Web Components is written in the registry at the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Internet

Value Name: LocationOfComponents
Value Type: String (REG_SZ)
Value Data: Text string pointing to original install point

If you modify the location by using one of the methods listed earlier in this article, the path that is specified for the LocationOfComponents string value changes accordingly.

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