Article ID: 934736
Article Last Modified on 9/28/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
SUMMARY
Microsoft has released a service pack for Microsoft Word Viewer 2003. This article contains information about how to obtain the service pack and about how to obtain a list of issues that are fixed by the service pack. Additionally, this article contains information about the issues that you may experience when you install the service pack and about how to determine whether the service pack is installed
INTRODUCTION
Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003. Some fixes that are included with Word Viewer 2003 SP3 were previously released in separate updates. Word Viewer 2003 SP3 combines the previously released fixes into one update.
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Service pack details
Word Viewer 2003 SP3 fixes the Word Viewer issues that are documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
938799 Issues that are fixed in Word 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3
Previously released updates that this service pack includes
Word Viewer SP3 includes the following previously released updates:
934041 Description of the security update for Word Viewer 2003: May 8, 2007
924883 Description of the security update for Word Viewer 2003: February 13, 2007
923276 Description of the security update for Word Viewer 2003: October 10, 2006
917346 Description of the security update for Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003: June 13, 2006
Installation details
How to obtain and install Word Viewer SP3
Word Viewer SP3 installation instructions and deployment strategies are available on the Microsoft Download Center. To download this service pack from the Microsoft Download Center, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Removal information
You cannot use the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel to remove this download. To remove Word Viewer SP3 from your computer, you must remove Word Viewer. Then, reinstall Word Viewer SP3 from your original Word Viewer download.
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
873125 You cannot remove service packs for Office 2003 products
How to determine whether the service pack is installed
The service pack contains files that have the versions that are listed in the following table.
| File name | File version |
| Gdiplus.dll | 11.0.8165.0 |
| Intldate.dll | 11.0.8161.0 |
| Lccwiz.dll | 11.0.8161.0 |
| Mso.dll | 11.0.8171.0 |
| Msohtmed.exe | 11.0.8164.0 |
| Msointl.dll | 11.0.8161.0 |
| Msxml5.dll | 5.20.1081.0 |
| Riched20.dll | 5.50.99.2014 |
| Saext.dll | 11.0.8161.0 |
| Seqchk10.dll | 11.0.8164.0 |
| Ucs20.dll | 11.0.8161.0 |
| Ucscribe.dll | 11.0.8161.0 |
| Wdvprtid.xml | Not applicable |
| Wordview.exe | 11.0.8169.0 |
| Wwintlv.dll | 11.0.8165.0 |
You do not have to install this service pack if you have a later version of the files that are listed in the table. For more information about how to determine the version of Word Viewer 2003 that is installed on your computer, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
821549 How to check the version of Office 2003 products
Information for administrators about .msp files
The administrative service pack consists of two full-file Microsoft Windows Installer files (.msp files) that are packaged in a self-extracting executable file. Both updates must be installed to update the Word Viewer product to Service Pack 3. The .msp files in the following table are distributed in this service pack.
Note The PREWDVIEWERSP3.msp update is installed to update the configuration of Office to fix a problem with applying the service pack. If the PREWDVIEWERSP3.msp file is uninstalled, it cannot be reinstalled. When it is uninstalled, it does not reintroduce the problem.
| Name of .msp file | Description |
| WDViewSP3.msp | Applies to Word Viewer 2003 |
| PREWDVIEWERSP3.msp | Applies to Word Viewer 2003 |
Features for reinstalling specific components for administrators
If you update your administrative installation point, and you recache and reinstall Word Viewer 2003 on client computers, you can run a command line that includes the REINSTALL=[list of features] property. The REINSTALL=[list of features] property specifies whether you want to reinstall specific components of Word Viewer 2003 from the administrative image. For Word Viewer 2003 SP3, the value for [list of features] appears as follows.
REINSTALL=ALL
For detailed procedures that explain how to update an administrative image and how to update client computers, see the "Updating clients from a patched administrative image" section in the "Strategies for Updating Office 2003 Installations" topic. To view the "Strategies for Updating Office 2003 Installations" topic, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
The Microsoft Office Desktop Applications TechCenter contains the latest administrative updates and strategic deployment resources for all versions of Office. For more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
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