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Don Gollahon - 04 Mar 2008 04:21 GMT

I have Office 2003 on my Vista Home Premium. Yet Windows Update wants
to install SP1 for Office 2007. Won't that mess up my office apps?

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neo [mvp outlook] - 04 Mar 2008 05:25 GMT

Did you install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint 2007 File Formats? If yes, this is why you are being offered
SP1.

>I have Office 2003 on my Vista Home Premium. Yet Windows Update wants
> to install SP1 for Office 2007. Won't that mess up my office apps?

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VanguardLH - 04 Mar 2008 05:53 GMT

> I have Office 2003 on my Vista Home Premium. Yet Windows Update
> wants
> to install SP1 for Office 2007. Won't that mess up my office apps?

Do you have the following folder on your hard drive?

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

...\Office10 = Office 2002/XP stuff
...\Office11 = Office 2003 stuff
...\Office12 = Office 2007 stuff

Maybe you installed components that are from Office 2007 (and work for
Office 2003). My guess is that the update site is trying to update
those Office 2007 components.

I'm still using Office 2002 which means that I have the ...\Office10
folder. However, I also have an ...\Office12 folder. Looks like it
has some converter tools under there from Office 2007 (or the
components are announcing themself as that version of Office but work
under prior versions).

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Don Gollahon - 04 Mar 2008 07:00 GMT

> > I have Office 2003 on my Vista Home Premium. Yet Windows Update
> > wants to install SP1 for Office 2007. Won't that mess up my office
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> components are announcing themself as that version of Office but work
> under prior versions).

Yep. Just wanted to make sure things were ok before I told it to
install.

Thanks to both of you.

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