Microsoft KB Archive/887618

= Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 2 for Proofing Tools =

Article ID: 887618

Article Last Modified on 9/28/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools

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SUMMARY
''Microsoft has released a service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 for Proofing Tools. This article contains information about how to obtain the service pack and about how to obtain a list of issues that are fixed by the service pack. Additionally, this article contains information about the issues that you may experience when you install the service pack and about how to determine whether the service pack is installed.''



INTRODUCTION
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 for Proofing Tools makes sure that Microsoft Office 2003 performs with complete functionality when you use an Office 2003 Proofing Tools.



List of issues that are fixed in this service pack
The Office 2003 Service Pack 2 for Proofing Tools fixes the proofing tools issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

887616 Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Earlier released updates that this service pack includes
The Office 2003 Service Pack 2 for Proofing Tools includes these earlier released updates:

843188 Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 1 for Proofing Tools

892258 Description of the updates for the Office 2003 French spelling checker and thesaurus: April 12, 2005

Known issues after the installation of the service pack
After you install a Microsoft Office service pack, you are unexpectedly prompted to restart the computer.

For more information about this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

905726 You are unexpectedly prompted to restart the computer after you install an Office service pack or an Office update

How to obtain and install the service pack
The client and administrative service packs, and also installation instructions and deployment strategies, are found on the Microsoft Download Center. To download this service pack from the Microsoft Download Center, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=63336EF2-7D76-4A8D-921F-C6F6E7152B97

Removal information
There is no option to remove this download using the Add or Remove Programs tool in Control Panel. To remove Office 2003 SP2 for Proofing Tools from your computer, you must remove Office 2003 and then reinstall Office 2003 from your original Office 2003 CD-ROM.

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

873125 You cannot remove service packs for Office 2003 products

How to determine whether the service pack is installed
The service pack contains files that have the versions that are listed in the following table.

You do not have to install this service pack if you have a later version of the files that are listed in the table.

For more information about how to determine the version of Office 2003 that is installed on your computer, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

821549 How to check the version of Office 2003

Information for administrators about .msp files
The administrative service pack consists of a full-file Microsoft Windows Installer file (.msp file) that is packaged in a self-extracting executable file. The .msp files in the following table are distributed in this service pack.

Features for reinstalling specific components for administrators
If you update your administrative installation point and recache and reinstall Office 2003 on client computers, you can run a command line that includes the REINSTALL=[list of features] property.

The REINSTALL=[list of features] property specifies whether you want to reinstall specific components of Office 2003 from the administrative image. For Office 2003 SP2 for Proofing Tools, the value for [list of features] is as follows:

REINSTALL=ALL

For detailed procedures that explain how to update an administrative image and to update client computers, see the &quot;Updating clients from a patched administrative image&quot; section in the &quot;Distributing Office 2003 Product Updates&quot; topic. To view the &quot;Distributing Office 2003 Product Updates&quot; topic, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011402381033.aspx

The Office Admin Update Center for Office IT Professionals contains the latest administrative updates and strategic deployment resources for all versions of Office. For more information about the Office Admin Update Center, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://technet.microsoft.com/office/bb267346.aspx

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