Microsoft KB Archive/906234

= Issues that are fixed in Office 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2 =

Article ID: 906234

Article Last Modified on 6/29/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003

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SUMMARY
Microsoft has released a service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 that contains fixes for Office 2003.



INTRODUCTION
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office 2003. Office 2003 SP2 contains security enhancements, stability improvements, and performance improvements. Some of the fixes that are included with Office 2003 SP2 were previously released in Office 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or in separate updates. Office 2003 SP2 combines the previously released fixes into one update. For more information about Office 2003 Service Pack 2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

887616 Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 2



Downloadable list of issues that the service pack fixes
A Microsoft Excel workbook is available that contains a list of the Office 2003 issues that are fixed by Office 2003 SP2.

Note The workbook is in the English language. The workbook will not be translated into any other languages.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Download the Office2003_SP2Changes.exe package now. Release Date: September 27, 2005

For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services

Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

Fixes in the service pack that require that you configure a registry key
When it is appropriate, Microsoft provides fixes that use registry keys. You can use these registry keys to enable, disable, or configure the functionality of a fix. By default, some fixes may be disabled. You may have to configure a registry key to enable a fix.

The following article contains information about the fixes that require that you configure a registry key.

906600 Fixes in Office 2003 SP2 that require that you configure a registry key

List of issues that the service pack fixes
The following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles list the issues that are fixed in the individual Office 2003 programs.

Microsoft Office Access 2003

906460 Issues that are fixed in Access 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office Excel 2003

906342 Issues that are fixed in Excel 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

906341 Issues that are fixed in FrontPage 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003

906426 Issues that are fixed in InfoPath 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

906451 Issues that are fixed in Outlook 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

906340 Issues that are fixed in PowerPoint 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

906339 Issues that are fixed in Publisher 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office Word 2003

906338 Issues that are fixed in Word 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Issues that were previously documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base
Additionally, Office 2003 SP2 fixes the issues that are described in the following hotfix packages:

840656 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: August 20, 2004

842772 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: August 20, 2004

867813 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: August 22, 2004

885239 Description of the Microsoft Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: September 2, 2004

887570 Description of the Microsoft Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: Date October 15, 2004

887591 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: November 18, 2004

887593 Description of the Microsoft Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: October 12, 2004

887965 Description of the French Microsoft Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: November 4, 2004

888508 Description of the proofing tools update for the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 10, 2005

890064 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: November 24, 2004

890472 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: November 25, 2004

890738 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: December 17, 2004

891014 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: December 14, 2004

892302 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 20, 2005

892539 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 22, 2005

893362 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 1, 2005

895317 Description of the Microsoft Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 4, 2005

896098 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 19, 2005

896176 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 28, 2005

896603 Description of the Office 2003 Web Components post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 29, 2005

897175 Description of the Microsoft Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: April 13, 2005

898058 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: April 28, 2005

898070 Description of the Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: April 28, 2005

892300 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 18, 2005

Issues that were not previously documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base
Office 2003 SP2 also fixes the following issues that were not previously documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

You cannot insert clip art into an Office 2003 object in a program that is not an Office 2003 program

When you try to insert clip art into an Office 2003 object in a program that is not an Office 2003 program, such as WordPad, nothing happens. For example, when you point to Picture on the Insert menu and then click Clip Art in the Office 2003 object, the Clip Art task pane does not open.

A control in a UserForm may be selected and then deleted when you try to find help in the Visual Basic Editor

Consider the following scenario. You create a UserForm in the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) in an Office 2003 program. Additionally, you add several controls to the UserForm. Then, you type a question in the Type a question for help box and press ENTER. If you click in the Type one or more keywords box and then press the LEFT ARROW key, a control in the UserForm is selected. If you then press DELETE, the control is deleted.

The time in the Date Taken field is incorrect in Picture Manager

When you use Microsoft Office Picture Manager to view the properties of a picture that was taken by using a digital camera, the time in the Date Taken field is incorrect.

The license-checking functionality is removed from Outlook Web Access

Office 2003 SP2 removes the license-checking functionality that was provided in earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook Web Access.

The data in a text file that contains Chinese characters is truncated or missing in an OWC component

You use the Microsoft Office Web Components (OWC) Spreadsheet component to view the data in a text file that contains Chinese characters. If the text file is loaded into the OWC Spreadsheet component by using the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) LoadText method of the Range object, some of the data in the text file is truncated or missing in the OWC Spreadsheet component.

You are prompted to acquire a new license when you open an Information Rights Management-protected document in an Office viewer

Every time that you open an Information Rights Management-protected document in a Microsoft Office 2003 viewer, you are prompted to acquire a new license.

An e-mail message or an attachment becomes corrupted when you save an e-mail message that contains an attachment

Consider the following scenario. You open a document that was received as an attachment to an e-mail message. Then, you close the message without closing the attached document. When you are prompted to save the message, you click Yes. If the message is an RTF-formatted message, the body of the message is lost. If the message is an HTML-formatted message or a plain text-formatted message, the message contains a message.rpmsg attachment. Additionally, the original attachment becomes corrupted.

You are prompted for the Product Key when you start an Office 2003 program after you install Office 2003 on a computer that has a preinstalled OEM version of Office 2003

Consider the following scenario. You have a computer that has a preinstalled original equipment manufacturer (OEM) version of Office 2003. Additionally, you install a retail copy of Office 2003 and provide the Office 2003 Product Key during the installation. When you try to start an Office 2003 program, you are prompted for the Office 2003 Product Key.

Note This problem may occur if you have not previously run an Office 2003 program from the preinstalled OEM version of Office 2003 before you install the retail copy of Office 2003.

A new summary document can be created from an Information Rights Management-protected document

You open an Information Rights Management-protected document in Word 2003. If you click AutoSummarize on the Tools menu, you can create a new document that contains the summary. With an Information Rights Management-protected document, you would expect not to be able to create a new document that contains the summary.

The status of Communicator 2005 team members is not displayed in Office 2003 programs

If you start an Office 2003 program before you start Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, the status of the Communicator 2005 team members is not displayed in the Office 2003 program.

Some new language locales are missing in Office 2003 Language Settings

After you install the new language locales that are included in update 897338, the following language locales are missing on the Enabled Languages tab in Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings:
 * Inuktitut (Latin)
 * Luxembourgish
 * Mohawk
 * Mapudungun
 * Romansh

For more information about the new language locales that are included in update 897338 for Windows XP SP2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

897338 The new language locales that are included in update 897338 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and for Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs

The NoAlertReporting value in the &quot;Disable reporting of error messages&quot; policy does not disable error reporting in Office 2003

When you use the NoAlertReporting DWORD value in the Disable reporting of error messages policy, error reporting is not disabled in Office 2003 programs.

You are not prompted to trust a signed add-in when you use high security in Office 2003

You start an Office 2003 program that contains a signed add-in. If you have the macro Security Level set to High, you are not prompted to trust the add-in. Additionally, the functionality of the add-in is not available. This problem occurs when the path of the add-in .dll file contains quotation marks in the Windows registry.

You cannot open InfoPath 2003 forms when the Internet zone in Internet Explorer is set to high security

When the Internet zone in Microsoft Internet Explorer is set to high security, you cannot open Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 forms.

You cannot add a Microsoft Office Document Imaging Viewer Control to a UserForm in Office 2003

When you try to add a Microsoft Office Document Imaging Viewer Control to a UserForm in the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor (VBE), the control is not added. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Microsoft Visual Basic: Library not registered.

The appearance of the Pawn icon is changed for Office documents that are saved in a Windows SharePoint Service document library

The Pawn icon that indicates presence status is changed from the Messenger-style icon to a circle.

Error signature details
When you use an Office 2003 program, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following:

Microsoft program has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. To see what data this error report contains, click here.

When you view the data in the error report, the report contains an error signature that is similar to one of the following error signatures.

Additionally, other program versions, module versions, and offsets are possible.

Additional query words: office2003 office2k3 off2003 off2k3

Keywords: kbtshoot kbfix kbupdate KB906234

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