How to Tell What Updates Have Been Applied to Office v.X?

[Will Deatrick]

How can I tell what updates have been applied to a given Office v.X
installation on a hard disk?

Before installing the 10.1.5 update, the directions say two other
updates (10.1.2 and 10.1.4) must be installed. Is there one file I can
check to see if these updates have been applied?

Thanks,

Will

 

[Gene van Troyer]

How can I tell what updates have been applied to a given Office v.X
installation on a hard disk?

Before installing the 10.1.5 update, the directions say two other
updates (10.1.2 and 10.1.4) must be installed. Is there one file I can
check to see if these updates have been applied?

Thanks,

Will

Highlight the application icon and type Command+I (Get Info). The dialog box
will tell you both the version and build number. You can compare this number
with the version number give in the "More Info" link for each update at the
downloads page. If your version and build number are lower than the one
given at the site, then you need to apply that update unless it explicitly
states that your version doesn't need it.

Hope this helps.

Gene

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Before installing the 10.1.5 update, the directions say two other
updates (10.1.2 and 10.1.4) must be installed. Is there one file I can
check to see if these updates have been applied?

Yes - check the Microsoft Component Plugin file in the Microsoft
Office X:Office folder. That component gets updated every time,
even if only some of the major applications do.

 

[Will Deatrick]

Thank you J (and Gene) for your suggestions. The Microsoft Component
Plugin file seems to be the quickest path to success. A Get Info on
this file showed 10.1.4.

Now why couldn't I find this on the Microsoft pages?

Thanks again for your help.

Will

 

[George]

Highlight the application icon and type Command+I (Get Info). The dialog box
will tell you both the version and build number. You can compare this number
with the version number give in the "More Info" link for each update at the
downloads page. If your version and build number are lower than the one
given at the site, then you need to apply that update unless it explicitly
states that your version doesn't need it.

Hope this helps.

Gene

Definitely helps, but unfortunately when I type Command+I, the version
numbers don't agree with what Microsoft says they should be. At the
bottom of the ReadMe file for the Office X 10.1.5 Update, it says each
application should be version 10.1.5, but in checking after I did the
update (and I've done 10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.1.4), I get the following:
Word 10.1.4, Excel 10.1.0, PowerPoint 10.1.5, and Entourage 10.1.4.
What's wrong -- my version numbers (and therefore a faulty series of
updates), or Microsoft's ReadMe file? Just FYI, the Microsoft
Component Plugin is v10.1.5.

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Definitely helps, but unfortunately when I type Command+I, the version
numbers don't agree with what Microsoft says they should be. At the
bottom of the ReadMe file for the Office X 10.1.5 Update, it says each
application should be version 10.1.5, but in checking after I did the
update (and I've done 10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.1.4), I get the following:
Word 10.1.4, Excel 10.1.0, PowerPoint 10.1.5, and Entourage 10.1.4.
What's wrong -- my version numbers (and therefore a faulty series of
updates), or Microsoft's ReadMe file? Just FYI, the Microsoft
Component Plugin is v10.1.5.

Re-read the Readme file for Office 10.1.5 update - it says nothing
about Word and Erage - those were last updated with 10.1.4, as
indicated above.

Your PPT and Microsoft Component Plugin version is correct for
having Update 10.1.5 applied. If XL is really 10.1.0, then it sounds
like 10.1.2 did not get applied correctly.

 

[Diane Ross]

Thank you J (and Gene) for your suggestions. The Microsoft Component
Plugin file seems to be the quickest path to success. A Get Info on
this file showed 10.1.4.

Now why couldn't I find this on the Microsoft pages?

You can find the info on the Entourage Help Page:

Version Info for Entourage.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/version.html>