Microsoft KB Archive/248710

= OFF97: Overview and History of Office 97 Patches =

Article ID: 248710

Article Last Modified on 8/27/2007

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 * Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q248710



SUMMARY
This article lists and describes the service releases and patches for Microsoft Office 97.



MORE INFORMATION
To determine which version of each Microsoft Office program (application) you are running, use any of the following methods, and then locate the version number in the "Versions of  97" table later in this article. The program (application) names for Office 97 are Excel.exe, Winword.exe, Powerpnt.exe, Outlook.exe, and Msaccess.exe.

Method 1: Use the "About Microsoft " Command
Click About Microsoft  on the Help menu in Microsoft  (where  is the name of the Microsoft Office program (application) that you are running). Note the version number listed in the dialog box.

Method 2: Identify the .exe File
To determine the version number from your .exe file, do the following:  Use Microsoft Windows Explorer to locate the .exe file.

The default location for this file is the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office

NOTE: If you are running Microsoft  97 from a network server, .exe is located on the network server. Right-click the <Application>.exe file. On the shortcut menu that appears, click Properties.</li> On the Version tab, note the File version property.</li></ol>

Method 3: Use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications
In Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, you can also determine which version of Microsoft <Application> you have installed by checking the value returned by Application.Build or Application.Version in a Visual Basic for Applications macro.

NOTE: Outlook 97 does not have Visual Basic for Applications but does use Visual Basic Scripting. In the Visual Basic Scripting environment, a form that includes the following code Sub Item_Open msgbox item.outlookinternalversion End Sub returns the internal version when the form is opened.

Versions of Excel 97
<pre class="fixed_text"> Excel          Help              File     Application.Build/   Patches/SRs version        menu (About)      version  Application.Version  Included --

Excel 97       Excel 97          8.0      3515 / 8.0           n/a

Excel 97 SR-1  Excel 97 SR-1     8.0a     4307 / 8.0a          n/a

Excel 97 SR-1  Excel 97 SR-1     8.0b     4307 / 8.0a          SR-1 and Xl8p1.exe

Excel 97 SR-1  Excel 97 SR-1     8.0c     4307 / 8.0a          SR-1, and Xl8p2.exe                                                  Xl8p1.exe

Excel 97 SR-1  Excel 97 SR-1     8.0d     4308 / 8.0d          SR-1, and Xl8p3.exe                                                  Xl8p1.exe, Xl8p2.exe

Excel 97 SR-2  Excel 97 SR-2     8.0e     5618 / 8.0e          SR-1, Xl8p1.exe, Xl8p2.exe, Xl8p3.exe

Excel 97 SR-2  Excel 97 SR-2(f)  8.0f     5619 / 8.0f          All fixes and Xl8p4.exe                                                  in SR-2

Excel 97 SR-2  Excel 97 SR-2(g)  8.0g     5620 / 8.0g          All fixes and Xl8p5.exe                                                  in SR-2, Xl8p4.exe

Excel 97 SR-2  Excel 97 SR-2(h)  8.0h     6416 / 8.0h          All fixes and Xl8p6.exe                                                  in SR-2, Xl8p4.exe Xl8p5.exe <pre class="fixed_text"> Excel 97 SR-2  Excel 97 SR-2(i)  8.0i     6916 / 8.0i          All fixes and Xl8p7.exe                                                  in SR-2, Xl8p4.exe, Xl8p5.exe, Xl8p6.exe <pre class="fixed_text"> Excel 97 SR-2  Excel 97 SR-2(j)  8.0j     7205 / 8.0j          All fixes and Xl8p8.exe                                                  in SR-2, Xl8p4.exe, Xl8p5.exe, Xl8p6.exe, Xl8p7.exe Excel 97 SR-2  Excel 97 SR-2(k)  8.0k     7410 / 8.0k          All fixes and Xl8p9.exe                                                  in SR-2, Xl8p4.exe Xl8p5.exe Xl8p6.exe Xl8p7.exe Xl8p8.exe

For additional information about each individual Excel 97 update, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

232652 XL97: Overview and History of Excel Patches

Versions of Word 97
<pre class="fixed_text"> Word             Help             File     Application.Build/   Patches/SRs version          menu (About)     version  Application.Version  Included --

Word 97          Word 97          8.0      3514 / 8.0           n/a

Word 97 SR-1     Word 97 SR-1     8.0      4412 / 8.0a          n/a

Word 97 SR-2     Word 97 SR-2     8.0b     5622 / 8.0b          n/a Word 97 SR-2     Word 97 SR-2     8.0b     7522 / 8.0b          n/a and Wd97lyp.exe Wd97mcrs.exe     Word 97 SR-2     8.0b     8909 /8.0b            n/a

Versions of PowerPoint 97
<pre class="fixed_text"> PowerPoint       Help             File     Application.Build/   Patches/SRs version          menu (About)     version  Application.Version  Included --

PowerPoint 97     PowerPoint 97       8.0      3516 / 8.00        n/a

PowerPoint 97 SR-1 PowerPoint 97 SR-1 8.0      4208 / 8.00        n/a

PowerPoint 97 SR-2 PowerPoint 97 SR-2 8.0b     5507 / 8.0b        SR-1

Versions of Access 97
<pre class="fixed_text"> Access           Help               File                  Patches/SRs version          menu (About)       version               Included --

Access 97        Access 97          8.0.3512                n/a Access 97 SR-1   Access 97 SR-1     8.0.4122                n/a Access 97 SR-2   Access 97 SR-2     8.0.5903                SR-1 NOTE: Access does not have an Application.Build or Application.Version property. If you need to use a macro, you can use "SysCmd(acSysCmdAccessVer)", but this only returns the major version information. The major version returned is always 8.0 in Access 97, Access 97 SR-1, and Access 97 SR-2.

The following are versions of the MSJet35.dll file that are included with Office/Access 97 and the Jet Updates. <pre class="fixed_text"> MSJet35.dll               File included with             version -

Access 97                3.50.3428.0

Access 97 SR-1           3.50.3907.5

Jet35Upd.exe (1st rel)   3.51.0623.4

Jet35Upd.exe (2nd rel)   3.51.1826.0

Access 97 SR-2 and       3.51.2026.0 Jet35Upd.exe (3rd rel)

Jet35SP2.exe             3.51.2723.0

Jet35SP3.exe (1st rel)   3.51.3203.0

Jet35SP3.exe (2nd rel)   3.51.3328.0 The MSJet35.dll file is included with many programs. For a more complete list, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/dllhelp/

For additional information about the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) release history, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

231943 INFO: Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) Release History

Versions of Outlook 97
<pre class="fixed_text"> Outlook          Help            File        Internal version          menu (About)    version     Version         Included --

Outlook 97       Outlook 97       8.0         3511              n/a

Outlook 97 SR-1  8.02.4212        8.02        4212              n/a Outlook 97 SR-2  8.04.5619        8.04        5619              SR-1 For additional information about versions of Outlook 97, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

172623 OL97: Microsoft Outlook Version Information

Release History
<pre class="fixed_text"> Update or Patch                                     Date Released      File name ---

E-Mail Forms Fix Utility for Outlook 97              15-Jul-97      Formfix.exe Internet Mail Enhancement Patch for Outlook 97       18-Jun-98      Outlimep.exe Switch Forms Utility for Outlook 97                  18-Jun-98      Switchfm.exe

Office 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1)                   22-Jul-98      Sr1off97.exe

Forms 2.0 Control Security Patch                     16-Jan-99      Fm2paste.exe Outlook 97 Import/Export Date Fix                    17-May-99      O97dtfix.exe Outlook 97 E-mail Attachment Security Update         12-Jul-99      O97attch.exe Office 97 Service Release 2b (SR-2b)                 30-Sep-99      Sr2bof97.exe

Office 97 ODBC Driver Vulnerability Security Update   6-Oct-99      Jetcopkg.exe

Download Site and Release Information
Formfix.exe http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/formfix.aspx

Outlimep.exe http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/outlimep.aspx

Switchfm.exe http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/switchfm.aspx

Sr1off97.exe http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/sr1off97detail.aspx

Fm2paste.exe http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3269C4C9-63CB-4B86-A4D9-9F3E2066044D

O97dtfix.exe http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/o97dtfix.aspx

O97attch.exe http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/O97attch.aspx

Sr2bof97.exe http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=BEFD7842-602E-42B0-89D2-6BE39F1167C1

Jetcopkg.exe http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3EFBE71A-00BB-48CE-930A-47FB9827E1E7&displaylang=EN

More Information
For more information, please click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

172475 OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-1

192874 OFF97: An Overview of Microsoft Office 97 SR-2

Additional query words: XL97 OFF97

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