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OFF2000: How to Determine Whether Office 2000 SR-1 Is Installed

Article ID: 260292

Article Last Modified on 6/18/2005

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Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 1

This article was previously published under Q260292

SUMMARY

This article explains how to determine whether Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1) is installed. For additional information about obtaining the Office 2000 SR-1 Update, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

245025 OFF2000: How to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1

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To determine whether SR-1 is installed, use any of the following methods.

Method 1: Check the About Dialog Box

To use this method, check the About dialog box in each Office 2000 program for an updated version number. For example, to check Microsoft Excel, follow these steps:

Start Microsoft Excel 2000.
On the Help menu, click About Microsoft Excel.
Determine whether the dialog box contains the following text:

Microsoft Excel 2000 SR-1

NOTE: The version information for Access 2000, Excel 2000, or Word 2000 may be incorrect if you did the following:

You installed a Microsoft Office 2000 product in such a way that you excluded Access, Excel, or Word. -and-
- You applied the Office 2000 SR-1 Update. -or-
- You installed Microsoft Project 2000.
-and-
You then installed Access, Excel, or Word from a non SR-1 stand-alone edition.

For additional information about non SR-1 programs that display SR-1 in the version, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

254844 OFF2000: Non SR-1 Programs Display SR-1 Information

Method 2: Run Office 2000 SR-1 Update Setup in Detect Mode

You can use the Office 2000 SR-1 Update Setup to determine which updates can be applied or which updates already were applied. The results are displayed in a dialog box. To use this method, follow these steps:

On the Start menu, click Run.
In the Open box, type the following command:

Temp:\SR1Patch\setup.exe /d

where Temp is the location of the Temp folder on your computer.

NOTE: If you have cleared out your Temp folder, you may not have the SR1Patch folder on your computer. If you do not have the SR1Patch folder on your computer, follow these steps:

On the Start menu, click Run.
In the Open box, type the following:

Path:\O2kSR1a.exe /c /t:c:\SR1Patch

where Path is the location of the O2ksr1a.exe file on your computer. If you do not have O2ksr1a.exe on your computer, click the following link to download it:

O2ksr1a.exe
On the Start menu, click Run.
In the Open box, type the following:

C:\SR1Patch\Setup.exe /d

If the Office 2000 SR-1 Update has been successfully installed on your computer, you see the following displayed in the dialog box:

Office 2000 SR-1 Core Update
Installed

If the SR-1 Update needs to be applied, you see one of the following displayed in the dialog box:

Office 2000 SR-1 Core Update
Update can be run from current location

Office 2000 SR-1 Core Update
33,696 KB Estimated time to download: 200 minutes

NOTE: The file size and estimated time to download may vary.

Method 3: Use System Information to Check Version Number

You can access the system information from within one of the Office 2000 programs to determine the build number. The Office program must be running in order to check the build by using this method. For example, to check Microsoft Excel, follow these steps:

Start Microsoft Excel 2000.
On the Help menu, click About Microsoft Excel.
Click System Info.
Click Applications.
Click Microsoft Excel 2000.
If you are running Windows 2000, click Summary. Otherwise, skip to the next step.
In the display panel on the right, look at the number to the right of Build.

Method 4: Use a Visual Basic for Applications Macro

You can use the following Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro code to check the version number of any of the Office 2000 programs that support VBA, except Outlook 2000 and Access 2000.

Sub Check_Version()
MsgBox Application.Build
End Sub

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