How to check what your most recent Office update was...

[cutenewt]

Hi I'm running Microsoft Office 2004 on my Mac Powerbook. I got the
notice about the office update 11.2.6 which I downloaded and installed.
Then I noticed the note about installing 11.2.5 first. I'm fairly
certain I never installed that update so I downloaded it but it will
not install (says it can't find the software to upgrade).
Maybe I did install it - is there a way to check what the last update
was that I did? (I have the automatic software update check done, but I
don't recall it telling me that I needed any updates in the last
month).
Or - would 11.2.6 have installed if 11.2.5 was not already installed?
I thought of removing 11.2.6 and trying to then install 11.2.5, but you
can't remove it without reinstalling Office.
Thanks!

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

Hi I'm running Microsoft Office 2004 on my Mac Powerbook. I got the
notice about the office update 11.2.6 which I downloaded and installed.
Then I noticed the note about installing 11.2.5 first. I'm fairly
certain I never installed that update so I downloaded it but it will
not install (says it can't find the software to upgrade).
Maybe I did install it - is there a way to check what the last update
was that I did? (I have the automatic software update check done, but I
don't recall it telling me that I needed any updates in the last
month).
Or - would 11.2.6 have installed if 11.2.5 was not already installed?
I thought of removing 11.2.6 and trying to then install 11.2.5, but you
can't remove it without reinstalling Office.
Thanks!

If a prior update is required, the installer will not let you apply the
later update.

You can't always go by the version numbers of the individual apps - some
apps are not always changed with every update, and sometime the change is
limited to some of the shared library files. Most reliable way to check what
version of 'office' you are running is to check the version of the file
'/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Microsoft Office' - I believe
this file has been updated in every minor release so far.

Also, to be sure you are getting things right, just select the 'check for
updates' item in the Help menu of any office application - this will always
apply the correct update for your installation.

 

[cutenewt]

Thanks very much and for all the additional tidbits too!

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

As Barry said, 11.2.6 would not have installed at all if you hadn't already
installed 11.2.5. If you want to double-check what version you're up to,
take a look at the "Microsoft Component Plugin" file in the Office subfolder
of the Microsoft Office 2004 folder. Its version is your Office version.

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