Article ID: 302663
Article Last Modified on 12/4/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition
- Microsoft Office XP Professional Edition
- Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage
- Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition
- Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Publisher 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition for Students and Teachers
- Microsoft Visio 2002 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visio 2002 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q302663
For a Microsoft Office 2007 version of this article, see 928516.
For a Microsoft Office 2003 version of this article, see 832672.
For a Microsoft Office 2000 version of this article, see 230848.
SUMMARY
This article describes the numbering scheme that is used by Microsoft Office-family programs and utilities.
MORE INFORMATION
When you install Office or any of the stand-alone Office programs, a product code or GUID is created in the following section of the Windows registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
The following is the format that is used by each GUID:
{WXYYZZZZ-6000-11D3-8CFE-0050048383C9}
Note In Microsoft Visio, the following is the format that is used by each GUID:
{WXYYZZZZ-6D54-11D4-BEE3-00C04F990354}
The first eight characters of the GUID contain information about the release type, edition type, store-keeping unit (SKU), and language of the product. The remaining digits in the GUID (11D3-8CFE-...) do not provide any easily categorizable information.
Used
Characters Definition Hex values
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W Release type 0-9, A-F
X Edition type 0-2
YY SKU of the product 10-35
ZZZZ Language identifier of the product any required
You can view the GUIDs for programs that are installed on your computer by following these steps:
- Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
- Locate the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
The GUIDs should be the first items that are listed under Uninstall, because their names start with braces.
Each GUID's data pane contains multiple values, including the product name that appears in the Add/Remove Programs dialog box (DisplayName), the date that the product was installed (InstallDate), the product ID (Product ID), the installation source (InstallSource), and the registered company and user name (RegCompany, RegOwner).
Release type
The release type values specify the level of the release, for example, Beta versus RTM. See the following table for details.
Value Release
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0 Any release before Beta 1
1 Beta 1
2 Beta 2
3 RC0<BR/>
4 RC1/OEM Preview Release
5-8 reserved values
9 RTM (first shipped version)
A SR1 (unused if the product code is not changed after RTM)
B SR2 (unused if the product code is not changed after RTM)
C SR3 (unused if the product code is not changed after RTM)
D-F reserved values
Edition type
The edition type specifies the audience for the Office product, for example, Enterprise or Retail. See the following table for details.
Value Edition
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0 Enterprise
1 Retail/OEM
2 Trial
Office SKU
The Office SKU is the version of your Office product, for example, Professional versus Standard. See the following table for details.
Value SKU -------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Microsoft Office XP Professional 12 Microsoft Office XP Standard 13 Microsoft Office XP Small Business 14 Microsoft Office XP Web Server 15 Microsoft Access 2002 16 Microsoft Excel 2002 17 Microsoft FrontPage 2002 18 Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 19 Microsoft Publisher 2002 1A Microsoft Outlook 2002 1B Microsoft Word 2002 1C Microsoft Access 2002 Runtime 1D Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 1E Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack 1F Microsoft Office Proofing Tools Kit 20 System Files Update 22 unused 23 Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack Wizard 24 Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit 25 Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit Tools (download from Web) 26 Microsoft Office Web Components 27 Microsoft Project 2002 28 Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage 29 Microsoft Office XP Professional Subscription 2A Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition Subscription 2B Microsoft Publisher 2002 Deluxe Edition 2F Standalone IME (JPN Only) 30 Microsoft Office XP Media Content 31 Microsoft Project 2002 Web Client 32 Microsoft Project 2002 Web Server 33 Microsoft Office XP PIPC1 (Pre Installed PC) (JPN Only) 34 Microsoft Office XP PIPC2 (Pre Installed PC) (JPN Only) 35 Microsoft Office XP Media Content Deluxe 3A Project 2002 Standard 3B Project 2002 Professional 51 Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 54 Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003
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 need to convert it to decimal in order to determine the language of the GUID. For example, 0409 hexadecimal is equivalent to 1033 decimal, which translates to English.
Sample GUID
If the GUID starts with 90280407, you know that the GUID was created by the initial released version (9) of an Enterprise edition (0) of Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage (28), and that the language of the product is German (0407 hexadecimal = 1031 decimal = German).
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