Office and its Service Packs versions

[Yeghia]

Hi Guys,

Is there a way to find out programmatically which version of Microsoft
Office (startiung from 97 to 2003) is installed and which Service Pack is
applied.

Regards
Yeghia

 

[Ken Laws [MSFT]]

Hi Yeghia,

Assuming that there is only a single version of Microsoft Office or a
single version of an office component installed on the computer, you could
use automation to launch a specific office component and then use the
following syntax to retrieve the version information for this component.

MsgBox oWordApp.Version
MsgBox oWordApp.Build

where oWordApp is an application variable for Microsoft Word.

Once you have the version and build number for the office application, you
can determine which service packs have been applied by referencing the
following Knowledge Base articles.

248710 OFF97: Overview and History of Office 97 Patches
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=248710


255275 OFF2000: How to Determine the Version of Your Office Program
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255275


305095 OFFXP: History of Office XP Updates
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305095


I hope this helps!

If you have any questions please let me know via the posting.

Regards,

Ken Laws
Microsoft Support


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[Yeghia]

Hi Ken,

This helped me, Thanks very much

I have Microsoft Word XP installed with Service Pack 1 installed and
Automation method returns 10.0.2627. Microsoft Word's About dialog reports
10.2627.3501 SP-1

Can you say me where this 3501 and SP-1 are taken from?

Thanks in advance.
Regards
Yeghia
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[Yeghia]

OK, It seems that I found the part of version info description

Microsoft Office products use the following syntax for the version number:
aa.bbbb.cccc
This number represents three items:

a..
aa: The version of Office.
b.. bbbb: The version of the program executable file, for example, Excel.exe.
c.. cccc: The version of the Mso.dll file.
The only part remaining is SP-1 string.

If you can tell me something about this it will be good.



Regards

Yeghia

 

[Chad DeMeyer]

If I'm not mistaken, SP-1 signifies "Service Pack 1".

Regards,
Chad
OK, It seems that I found the part of version info description

Microsoft Office products use the following syntax for the version number:
aa.bbbb.cccc
This number represents three items:

a..
aa: The version of Office.
b.. bbbb: The version of the program executable file, for example, Excel.exe.
c.. cccc: The version of the Mso.dll file.
The only part remaining is SP-1 string.

If you can tell me something about this it will be good.



Regards

Yeghia