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Description of the Office XP Italian Proofing Tools Update: March 5, 2003

Article ID: 813682

Article Last Modified on 2/1/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition

SUMMARY

Microsoft has released an update to Microsoft Office XP. This update fixes a problem where the Italian thesaurus may suggest some inappropriate offensive words. Additionally, the updated Italian proofing tools -- Italian spelling checker, grammar checker, and thesaurus –- offer additional words and improved suggestions. This Office XP update is part of the continued effort by Microsoft to provide the latest product updates to customers.

This article describes how to download and install the Office XP Italian Proofing Tools Update: KB813682.

The update described in this article applies to the following products:

Microsoft Office XP (Italian version)
Microsoft Office XP (German version)
Microsoft Office XP Italian Multilingual User Interface Pack

This update was first included in Office XP Service Pack 3. For additional information about the latest service pack for Office XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

307841 How to obtain the latest Office XP Service Pack

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How to Download and Install the Update

Important Before you install this update, make sure that the following requirements have been met:

Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0

Before you install this update, you must install Windows Installer 2.0 or later. For additional information about this requirement, see the "Windows Installer Update Requirements" section of this article.
Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP-2)

Before you install this update, install Office XP SP-2.

For additional information about how to install Office XP Service Pack 2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

325671 Description of the Office XP Service Pack 2 (S)

Client Update

If you installed Office XP from a CD-ROM, use either of the following methods:

Use the Office Product Updates Web site to automatically install all the latest updates that include all available service packs and public updates.

-or-

Install only the Office XP Italian Proofing Tools Update: KB813682 by following the steps described later in the "More Information" section of this article.

Note Microsoft recommends that you install the client update by using the Office Product Updates Web site. The Office Product Updates Web site detects your particular installation of Microsoft Office and prompts you to install exactly what you must to make sure that your Office installation is completely up-to-date.

Office Product Updates Web Site

To permit the Office Product Updates Web site to detect the updates that you must install on your computer, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://office.microsoft.com/ProductUpdates/default.aspx

After detection is complete, you receive a list of recommended updates for your approval. Click Start Installation to complete the process.

Install Only the Microsoft Office XP Italian Proofing Tools Update: KB813682

To download and install the client update, follow these steps:

Visit the following Microsoft download site:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/3/b/a3b89c9c-45bf-48c4-95f8-daaf4d21a8b8/Igt1001.exe
Click Save to save the Igt1001.exe file to the selected folder.
In Windows Explorer, double-click Igt1001.exe.
If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
Insert your Office XP CD-ROM when you are prompted to do so, and then click OK.
When you receive a message that indicates the installation was successful, click OK.

Note After you install the update, you cannot remove it. To revert to an installation before the update was installed, you must remove Office XP and then install it again from the original CD-ROM.

Administrative Update

If you installed Office XP from a server location, the server administrator must update the server location with the administrative update and then deploy that update to your computer.

If you are the server administrator, follow these steps to download the administrative update:

Visit the following Microsoft download site:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/3/b/a3b89c9c-45bf-48c4-95f8-daaf4d21a8b8/Igt1001a.exe
Click Save to save the Igt1001a.exe file to the selected folder.
In Windows Explorer, double-click Igt1001a.exe.
If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
In the Type the location where you want to place the extracted files box, type c:\igt1001a, and then click OK.
Click Yes when you are prompted to create the folder.
If you are familiar with the procedure for updating your administrative installation, click Start, and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box

msiexec /a Admin Path\MSI File /p C:\igt1001a\MSP File SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE

where Admin Path is the path of your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), and

where MSI File is the .msi database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi), and

where MSP File is the name of the administrative update (for example, Itamuiff.msp).
To deploy the update to the client workstations, click Start, and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box

msiexec /i Admin Path\MSI File REINSTALL=Feature List REINSTALLMODE=vomu

where Admin Path is the path of your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), and

where MSI File is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi), and

where Feature List is the list of feature names (case-sensitive) that have to be reinstalled for the update. To install all features, you can use REINSTALL=ALL or you can use the following features:

SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1040,ThesaurusFiles_1040,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPI2,EXCELFilesNote

Note You can append /qb+ to the command line so that the Office XP Administrative Installation dialog box and the End User License Agreement dialog box do not appear.

For additional information about how to update your administrative installation and deploy to client workstations, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

301348 How to install a public update to administrative installations of Office XP

This article contains standard instructions for installing an administrative public update.

For additional information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/journ/auxp104.htm

How to Determine Whether the Update Is Installed

The update contains updated versions of the following files:

   File name      Version
   --------------------------
   Msgrit32.dll   3.0.0.35
   Msth3it.dll    1.00.00.0012
   Emablt32.dll   10.0.4406.0
   Msmapi32.dll   10.0.4420.0
   Xlintl32.dll   10.0.4302.0
   Msth3it.lex    unversioned

Note The following files are updated only when you apply the Office XP Italian Multilingual User Interface Pack:

Emablt32.dll
Msmapi32.dll
Xlintl32.dll

To determine the version of the file that is installed on your computer, follow these steps.

Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.

Click Start, and then click Search.
In the Search Results pane, click All files and folders under Search Companion.
In the All or part of the file name box, type the file name, and then click Search.
In the list of files, right-click the file name, and then click Properties.
On the Version tab, determine the version of the file that is installed on your computer.

Note If the Office XP Italian Proofing Tools Update: KB813682 is already installed on your computer, you receive the following error message when you try to install the Office XP Italian Proofing Tools Update: KB813682:

This update has already been applied or is included in an update that has already been applied.

Windows Installer Update Requirements

To install the update that is described in this article, you must have Windows Installer 2.0 or later installed. Both Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) include Windows Installer 2.0 or later. To install the latest version of the Windows Installer, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites.

Windows Installer for Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, and Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cebbacd8-c094-4255-b702-de3bb768148f%20&displaylang=en

Windows Installer for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4B6140F9-2D36-4977-8FA1-6F8A0F5DCA8F

List of Issues Fixed by the Update

The Office XP Italian Proofing Tools Update: KB813682 fixes the issue that is described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

811440 WD2002: Italian Proofing Tools make a potentially offensive suggestion

Additionally, the following issue is fixed.

WD2002: Italian Thesaurus May Suggest Inappropriate Offensive Words

When you use the thesaurus for a word in an Italian Word document, the thesaurus may suggest some inappropriate offensive words.

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