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From: Roland on 10 Mar 2010 12:27
We are running Office 2003 on one computer. The March update downloads from
MS want me to take and install the following Office 2007 patches:

Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB977724)
Date last published: 3/9/2010

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB978380)
Date last published: 3/9/2010

These are obviously for Office 2007. The information provided with the
update makes no mention of working with or needed by Office 2003. But it
keeps suggesting I install these 2 patches. Why? Should I install them?

I do have MS Live Meeting 2007 installed on his system. Could this be what
causes this question? If so the same question. Should I install?

Thanks for any and all help

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From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 10 Mar 2010 12:53
Is Office Compatibility Pack (SP1/SP2) and/or PowerPoint Viewer and/or Word
Viewer and/or Excel Viewer installed?


Roland wrote:
> We are running Office 2003 on one computer. The March update downloads
> from
> MS want me to take and install the following Office 2007 patches:
>
> Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB977724)
> Date last published: 3/9/2010
>
> Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB978380)
> Date last published: 3/9/2010
>
> These are obviously for Office 2007. The information provided with the
> update makes no mention of working with or needed by Office 2003. But it
> keeps suggesting I install these 2 patches. Why? Should I install them?
>
> I do have MS Live Meeting 2007 installed on his system. Could this be
> what
> causes this question? If so the same question. Should I install?
>
> Thanks for any and all help

From: Bruce on 10 Mar 2010 16:46
I had the same experience with the same two updates. I do have the office compatibility pack installed so that I can open .docx files. But now that I did the updates, I cannot open .docx files. I get a message, saying "There was an error opening the file." I went to Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, but these updates aren't shown. I even tried removing the Compatibility Pack and reinstalling it, but to no avail. Any suggestions? Many thanks for your help.

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From: Michael on 10 Mar 2010 18:06
....and you felt the need to hijack this thread, why? Start a new thread and
include all the specifics.

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If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."


"Bruce" <user(a)msgroups.net/> wrote in message
news:eiUhzsJwKHA.1796(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I had the same experience with the same two updates. I do have the office
> compatibility pack installed so that I can open .docx files. But now that
> I did the updates, I cannot open .docx files. I get a message, saying
> "There was an error opening the file." I went to Add/Remove Programs in
> Control Panel, but these updates aren't shown. I even tried removing the
> Compatibility Pack and reinstalling it, but to no avail. Any suggestions?
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> ---
> frmsrcurl:
> http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/Why-Office-2007-updates-for-office-2003

From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 10 Mar 2010 21:35
And you would be replying to whom via that clunky third-party forum
interface...?

Bruce wrote:
> I had the same experience with the same two updates. I do have the office
> compatibility pack installed so that I can open .docx files. But now that
> I did the updates, I cannot open .docx files. I get a message, saying
> "There was an error opening the file." I went to Add/Remove Programs in
> Control Panel, but these updates aren't shown. I even tried removing the
> Compatibility Pack and reinstalling it, but to no avail. Any suggestions?
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> ---
> frmsrcurl:
> http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/Why-Office-2007-updates-for-office-2003

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