Microsoft KB Archive/230848

= Description of the numbering scheme for the product code GUIDs in Office 2000 =

Article ID: 230848

Article Last Modified on 6/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack
 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Publisher 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q230848





For a Microsoft Office 2007 version of this article, see 928516.



For a Microsoft Office XP version of this article, see 302663.



For a Microsoft Office 2003 version of this article, see 832672.



SUMMARY
This article describes the numbering scheme used by Microsoft Office programs and utilities.



MORE INFORMATION
When you install Office, or any of the stand-alone Office programs, a product code or GUID is created in the following section of the Microsoft Windows registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

The format used by each GUID is:

{xxyyzzzz-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}

The first section of the GUID contains information about the version, store-keeping unit (SKU), and language of the product:

                                                      Allowable Characters  Definition                                values - xx          The version of the product                00-FF yy          The SKU of the product                    00-FF zzzz        The language identifier of the product    any required

This scheme allows for up to 255 versions for each of 255 SKUs for each language version of Office. All three of these values are stored in hexadecimal format within the GUID.

The version number starts at 00 for the initial released version of Office and each stand-alone Office program. When new versions or service releases are released, the version number will be incremented (01, 02, 03).

The SKU number is different for each package of Office or stand-alone Office program, as shown in the following table.   SKU number   Program ---  00           Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition CD1 01          Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition 02          Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition 03          Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition 04          Microsoft Office 2000 Premium CD2 05          Office CD2 SMALL 06-0F       (reserved) 10          Microsoft Access 2000 (standalone) 11          Microsoft Excel 2000 (standalone) 12          Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (standalone) 13          Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 (standalone) 14          Microsoft Publisher 2000 (standalone) 15          Office Server Extensions 16          Microsoft Outlook 2000 (standalone) 17          Microsoft Word 2000 (standalone) 18          Microsoft Access 2000 runtime version 19          FrontPage Server Extensions 1A          Publisher Standalone OEM 1B          DMMWeb 1C          FP WECCOM 1D-1F       (reserved standalone SKUs) 20-2F       Office Language Packs 30-3F       Proofing Tools Kit(s) 40          Publisher Trial CD   41           Publisher Trial Web 42          SBB 43          SBT 44          SBT CD2 45          SBTART 46          Web Components 47          VP Office CD2 with LVP 48          VP PUB with LVP 49          VP PUB with LVP OEM 4F          Access 2000 SR-1 Run-Time Minimum

The language identifier, or LCID, varies from language to language. Since the LCID is stored in the GUID in hexadecimal format, you may need to convert it to decimal in order to determine the language of the GUID. For example, 0409 hexadecimal is equivalent to 1033 decimal, which translates to English.

Note The remaining digits (78E1-11D2-...) do not provide any easily categorizable information.

So, if the GUID begins with 00020407, you would know that the GUID was created by the initial released version (00) of Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition (02) and that the language of the product is German (0407 hexadecimal = 1031 decimal = German).

You can view the GUIDs for programs that are installed on your computer by following these steps:  Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK. Locate the following subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall



The GUIDs should be the first items listed under Uninstall because their names start with braces.

Each GUID's data pane contains multiple values, including the product name that appears in the Add/Remove Programs dialog box (DisplayName), the date that the product was installed (InstallDate), the product ID (Product ID), the installation source (InstallSource), and the registered company and user name (RegCompany, RegOwner).

Additional query words: OFF2000 XL2000 ACC2000 WD2000 PPT2000 OL2000 PUB2000 FP2000

Keywords: kbsetup kbpubtypekc kbmsccsearch kbinfo KB230848

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