Article ID: 885252
Article Last Modified on 11/15/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Excel 2003
SUMMARY
Microsoft has released the Excel 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package for Microsoft Office Excel 2003. This article describes the following items about the hotfix package:
- Issues that the hotfix package fixes
- Prerequisites for installing the hotfix package
- Whether you must restart your computer after you install the hotfix package
- Whether the hotfix package is replaced by any other hotfix package
- Whether you must make any registry changes to use one or more of the hotfixes in the package
- The files that the hotfix package contains
INTRODUCTION
This article describes the Microsoft Office Excel 2003 issues that are fixed in the Excel 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package that is dated September 3, 2004.
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Issues that the hotfix package fixes
This hotfix package fixes the following issues:
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Service pack information
This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 2.
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
870924 How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003
Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next service pack that contains this hotfix.
To resolve this problem, submit a request to Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain the hotfix. To submit an online request to obtain the hotfix, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Note If additional issues occur or any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. To create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Prerequisites
The following list contains prerequisites for the hotfix package:
- The optimized version of this hotfix is a post-Office 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) hotfix. To install the hotfix, you must have Office 2003 SP1 installed. For more information about Office 2003 SP1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
842532 Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 1
- The full-file version of this hotfix is also the administrative version of this hotfix. You can install this version of the hotfix on a computer that is running with or without Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack (SP1) installed. However, we have tested this hotfix more extensively on a computer that is running with Office 2003 SP1 installed than we have on a computer that is running without Office 2003 SP1 installed. If you install this hotfix on a computer that is running without Office 2003 SP1 installed, some file conflicts might occur. We support this configuration, but we do not recommend this configuration.
Restart information
You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.
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Hotfix replacement information
This hotfix is replaced by a later hotfix. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
840379 Description of the Excel 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: September 9, 2004
Registry information
You must create or modify a registry key to use the one of the hotfixes that this package contains. For more information about the registry keys that must be modified, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
873364 Data is not sorted as expected if you view anything other than the first item that is listed at the top of an Excel 2003 pivot table
885241 Images and text are distorted when you use Outlook 2003 to modify a RTF e-mail message that contains embedded Excel 2003 data
Hotfix file information
This hotfix contains only those files that are required to correct the issues that this article lists. This hotfix may not contain of all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build.
The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.
Download information.
Date Time Size File name ---------------------------------------------------------- 03-Sep-2004 23:13 5,515,808 Office2003-kb885252-glb.exe
Microsoft Windows Installer .msp file information.
Date Time Size File name ------------------------------------------ 03-Sep-2004 03:21 8,430,592 Excelff.msp 03-Sep-2004 01:49 2,148,864 Excelop.msp
After the hotfix is installed, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or a later version) that are listed in the following table:
Date Time Version Size File name -------------------------------------------------------- 26-Aug-2004 22:50 11.0.6402.0 10,083,008 Excel.exe
Additional notes:
- For additional information about how to install this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the hotfix package.
- For additional information about the differences between the two .msp files, see the "Strategies for Updating Office 2003 Installations" topic. To see this topic, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
REFERENCES
For more information about the terminology that Microsoft uses when correcting software after it is released, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates
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