Microsoft KB Archive/928516

= Description of the numbering scheme for product code GUIDs in 2007 Office suites and programs =

Article ID: 928516

Article Last Modified on 11/20/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Basic 2007
 * Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
 * Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
 * Microsoft Office Professional 2007
 * Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
 * Microsoft Office Standard 2007
 * Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007
 * Microsoft Office Access 2007
 * Microsoft Office Excel 2007
 * Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
 * Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
 * Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
 * Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
 * Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007
 * Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
 * Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007
 * Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007
 * Microsoft Office Word 2007

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For a Microsoft Office 2000 version of this article, see 230848.



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 how to read the product GUID in the Microsoft Windows registry to determine information about the 2007 Microsoft Office suite, programs, or utilities that you are using. Information about the release type, the release version, and the language of a 2007 Office suite or program is contained in the GUID.''



INTRODUCTION
This article describes the numbering scheme for product code GUIDs in 2007 Microsoft Office suites, programs, and utilities.



MORE INFORMATION
When you install a 2007 Office suite or one of the stand-alone 2007 Office programs, one or more product codes, or GUIDs, are created in the following registry subkey:

Each GUID uses the following format:

{BRMMmmmm-PPPP-LLLL-p000-D000000FF1CE}

The following table describes the characters of the GUID.

To view the GUIDs for the 2007 Office suites and programs that are installed on the computer, follow these steps:  Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate the following subkey:

The names of the GUIDs start with a brace ({ ). Therefore, GUIDs are the first items that are listed under Uninstall.

Each GUID data pane contains multiple values. These values include the following values.

Release version
The release version values specify the level of the release, such as a beta version or a release to manufacturing (RTM) version. See the following table for more information.

Release type
The release type specifies the audience for the 2007 Office suite, such as Enterprise or Retail. See the following table for more information.

Product ID
The product ID is the version of the 2007 Office suite or program, such as Microsoft Office Professional 2007 or Microsoft Office Standard 2007. See the following table for more information.

Language identifier
The language identifier, or LCID, varies from language to language. Because the LCID is stored in the GUID in hexadecimal format, you may have to convert the LCID value to a decimal value to determine the language of the GUID. For example, a hexadecimal value of 0409 converts to a decimal value of 1033. This value represents English.

For more information about language identifiers in 2007 Office suites and programs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f5fee727-df49-4ef7-b073-dd6c08dfecfa1033.mspx?mfr=true

Sample GUID
The first 16 digits of a GUID are 91120000-0014-0407. This GUID was created by the initial release version (9) of a Retail or OEM edition (1), version 12.0000, of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 (0014). The language of the product is German. In this case, the hexadecimal value 0407 converts to the decimal value 1031. This value represents German.

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