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When you install Office 2003 or any one of the stand-alone
Office 2003 programs, a product code (or GUID) is created in the following
section of the Microsoft Windows registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
The format that each GUID uses is:
{WXYYZZZZ-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}
The first eight digits of the GUID contain information about the
release type, the edition type, the store-keeping unit (SKU), and the language
of the product.
The remaining digits in the GUID (6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9) do not provide any information that can be easily categorized.
The following table describes each of the first eight
characters of the GUID.
| Characters | Definition | Hexadecimal Values |
| W | Release type | 0-9, A-F |
| X | Edition type | 0-2 |
| YY | SKU of the product | 10-35 |
| ZZZZ | Language identifier of the product | any
required |
You can view the GUIDs for programs that are installed on your
computer. To do so, follow these steps:
- Click Start, and then click
Run.
- In the Open box, type
regedit, and then click OK.
- Locate the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
The GUIDs should be the first items that are listed under
Uninstall, because their names start with
braces.
Each GUIDs data pane contains multiple values, including the
product name that appears in the
Add/Remove Programs dialog
box (DisplayName), the date that the product was installed (InstallDate), the
product ID (Product ID), the installation source (InstallSource), and the
registered company and user name (RegCompany, RegOwner).
Release type
The release type values specify the level of the release, such as
Beta versus release to manufacturing. See the following table for
details.
| Value | Release |
| 0 | Any release before Beta 1 |
| 1 | Beta 1 |
| 2 | Beta 2 |
| 3 | Release Candidate 0 (RC0) |
| 4 | Release Candidate 1 (RC1)/OEM Preview Release |
| 5-8 | Reserved values |
| 9 | Release to manufacturing. This is the first shipped
version (initial release). |
| A | Service Pack 1 (SP1) (Unused if the product code is
not changed after release to manufacturing) |
| B | Service Pack 2 (SP2) (Unused if the product code is
not changed after release to manufacturing) |
| C | Service Pack 3 (SP3) (Unused if the product code is
not changed after release to manufacturing) |
| D-F | Reserved values |
Edition type
The edition type specifies the audience for the Office 2003
product, such as Enterprise or Retail. See the following table for details.
| Value | Edition |
| 0 | Enterprise |
| 1 | Retail/OEM |
| 2 | Trial |
Office SKU
The Office SKU is the version of your Office 2003 product, such as
Professional or Standard. See the following table for details.
| Value | SKU |
| 11 | Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition
2003 |
| 12 | Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 |
| 13 | Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003 |
| 14 | Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 |
| 15 | Microsoft Office Access 2003 |
| 16 | Microsoft Office Excel 2003 |
| 17 | Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 |
| 18 | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 |
| 19 | Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 |
| 1A | Microsoft Office Outlook Professional 2003 |
| 1B | Microsoft Office Word 2003 |
| 1C | Microsoft Office Access 2003 Runtime |
| 1E | Microsoft Office 2003 User Interface Pack |
| 1F | Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools |
| 23 | Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface
Pack |
| 24 | Microsoft Office 2003 Resource Kit |
| 26 | Microsoft Office XP Web Components |
| 2E | Microsoft Office 2003 Research Service SDK |
| 44 | Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 |
| 83 | Microsoft Office 2003 HTML Viewer |
| 92 | Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 English Template
Pack |
| 93 | Microsoft Office 2003 English Web Parts and
Components |
| A1 | Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 |
| A4 | Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components |
| A5 | Microsoft SharePoint Migration Tool 2003 |
| AA | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Presentation
Broadcast |
| AB | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Template Pack
1 |
| AC | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Template Pack
2 |
| AD | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Template Pack
3 |
| AE | Microsoft Organization Chart 2.0 |
| CA | Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 |
| D0 | Microsoft Office Access 2003 Developer
Extensions |
| DC | Microsoft Office 2003 Smart Document SDK |
| E0 | Microsoft Office Outlook Standard 2003 |
| E3 | Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 (with
InfoPath 2003) |
| FD | Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (distributed by MSN) |
| FF | Microsoft Office 2003 Edition Language Interface Pack |
| F8 | Remove Hidden Data Tool |
| 3A | Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003 |
| 3B | Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 |
| 32 | Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 |
| 51 | Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 |
| 53 | Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003 |
| 5E | Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack |
Language identifier
The language identifier, or LCID, varies from language to
language. Because the LCID is stored in the GUID in hexadecimal format, you may
have to convert it to decimal to determine the language of the
GUID.
For example, 0409 hexadecimal converts to 1033 decimal, which
represents English.
Sample GUID
If the first eight digits of a GUID is 9117-0407, you know that
the GUID was created by the initial released version (9) of a Retail or OEM
Edition (1) of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional with Microsoft FrontPage
(17), and that the language of the product is German (0407 hexadecimal converts
to 1031 decimal which represents German).