How to Find and Install Microsoft Office Document Imaging

If you just acquired a scanner and have Microsoft Office, you can use Microsoft Office Document Imaging. This will provide basic scanning features. You can save your scanned documents as single page tif files, multipage tif files, or mdi files.
But where can Microsoft Office Document Imaging be found and if you don’t have it, how can you install it?

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Office CD (You might need it)

1. 

   First check if Microsoft Office Document Imaging is in the default location. Click All Programs, then Microsoft Office then Microsoft Office Tools. If it’s there, you are done.

2. 

   If it’s not there, go to Windows Explorer.
   If you can not find Windows Explorer, right click on the Windows XP menu bar Start button and click explore.

3. 

   Click the Search button.

4. 

   Click all files and folders.

5. 

   Type MSPVIEW.EXE in the “All or part of the file name” text box.

6. 

   In the “Look in” drop down box.
   Click the down arrow.
   Click Browse.

7. 

   In the dialog box that pops up, click on the plus sign (+) next to “My Computer”.
   Click on the plus sign next to the C: drive.

8. 

   Scroll down until you see Program Files. Click on it and then click OK.

9. 

   Click Search. The search could take a long time. If the file is found before the search is ended, you can click stop.

10. 

    If the file is found, you have Microsoft Office Document Imaging installed on your PC. You can create a shortcut for Microsoft Office Document Imaging by right clicking on the file and clicking create shortcut.

11. 

    It will ask you to create the shortcut on your desktop. Click yes to create the shortcut and you are done.

12. 

    If the file is not found, now is the time to install it. Click the start menu and click control panel.

13. 

    Click “Add or Remove Programs” and scroll down until you see Microsoft Office. It may say more after the Microsoft Office, like Home 2003, or Enterprise 2007.

14. 

    Click on the Microsoft Office row that you see and it will expand with 2 buttons, Change and Remove. Click the Change button.

15. 

    Be sure “Add or Remove features” is selected and click Continue.

16. 

    Click on the plus next to Office Tools.

17. 

    You should see Microsoft Office Document Imaging and there should be a red X next to it. Click on the drop down arrow next to Microsoft Office Document Imaging and you should see 4 options. Click “Run all from My Computer”.

18. 

    The red X will go away. Click continue and Microsoft Office Document Imaging will be installed.
    
    Note, it may ask you for the Microsoft Office CD at this point.

19. Once the process is complete, don’t forget to close the “Add or Remove programs” dialog box and the Control Panel.