Leave it to Microsoft to drop one of your favorite assistants

Since I searched and couldn’t find any way to add another assistant back into office XP (only found help with Office 97), I decided to trick the existing office XP version by renaming one of the existing office assistants and replacing it with the genius office assistant. It worked

Copy Genius files from Office 2000 C
GENIUS.AC
GENIUS.ACS

or if you still have 1 old office 2000 application: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office

In the Office XP location for Office Assistants
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office1
In the above directory – copy over both Genius file
GENIUS.AC
GENIUS.ACS
So had to fool the new XP office that genius was F1.ACS and F1.AC

Rename existing F1 assistant files to (F1-old.ACG, and F1-old.ACS)
Then rename a Copy of Genius files {GENIUS.ACG & GENIUS.ACS} to F1.ACG and F1.ACS
This way when Office XP looks up F1, it will actually be GENIUS => It worked

Paul De Groot wrote:

> Leave it to Microsoft to drop one of your favorite assistants.
>
> Since I searched and couldn’t find any way to add another assistant back into office XP (only found help with Office 97), I decided to trick the existing office XP version by renaming one of the existing office assistants and replacing it with the genius office assistant. It worked!
>
> Copy Genius files from Office 2000 CD
> GENIUS.ACG
> GENIUS.ACS
>
> or if you still have 1 old office 2000 application: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office
>
> In the Office XP location for Office Assistants:
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10
> In the above directory – copy over both Genius files
> GENIUS.ACG
> GENIUS.ACS
> So had to fool the new XP office that genius was F1.ACS and F1.ACG
>
> Rename existing F1 assistant files to (F1-old.ACG, and F1-old.ACS).
> Then rename a Copy of Genius files {GENIUS.ACG & GENIUS.ACS} to F1.ACG and F1.ACS
> This way when Office XP looks up F1, it will actually be GENIUS => It worked.
>

....and there are those of us who despise the Assistants in any form
since they do nothing but take up space and slow down every application
and OS they reside in.

Q