Description of Office XP post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: October 26, 2004 (887967)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office XP Professional
  • Microsoft Office XP Small Business
  • Microsoft Office XP Standard
  • Microsoft Office XP Students and Teachers
  • Microsoft Office XP Developer

SUMMARY

Microsoft has released the Office XP post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package for Microsoft Office XP. This article describes the following items about the hotfix package:

  • The issues that the hotfix package fixes
  • The prerequisites for installing the hotfix package
  • Whether you must restart your computer after you install the hotfix package
  • Whether the hotfix package is replaced by any other hotfix package
  • Whether you must make any registry changes to use one or more of the hotfixes in the package
  • The files that the hotfix package contains

Article contents

INTRODUCTION

This article describes the Office XP issue that is fixed in the Office XP post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package that is dated October 26, 2004.

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Issues that the hotfix package fixes

This hotfix package fixes the following issue that was not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
  • When you install the French language from the Microsoft Office XP Multilingual User Interface Pack, and then use the Office XP Pivot Table Web Component on a document or a Web page, the Pivot Table Web Component will display the year as the string constant "aaaa."


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MORE INFORMATION

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

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Prerequisites

  • The optimized version of this hotfix is a post-Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) hotfix. To install the hotfix, you must have Microsoft Office XP SP3 installed.

    For additional information about Office XP SP3, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    832671 Description of Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3

  • The optimized version of this hotfix requires Microsoft Windows Installer version 2.0 or a later version.

    For additional information about the Windows Installer requirement, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    330537 Office XP updates and patches released after September 2002 may require Windows Installer 2.0

  • The full-file version of this hotfix is also the administrative version of this hotfix. You can install this version of the hotfix on a computer that is running Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). However, we have tested this hotfix on Office XP SP3 more extensively than we have on Office XP SP2. If you install this hotfix on a computer that is running Office XP SP2, some file conflicts might occur. We support this configuration, but we do not recommend this configuration.
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Restart information

You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

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Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix is not replaced by any later hotfix.

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Registry information

You do not have to create or to modify any registry keys to use any hotfixes that this package contains.

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Hotfix file information

This hotfix contains only those files that are required to correct the issues that this article lists. This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build.

The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

Microsoft Office XP French Language Version
   Date          Time    Size      File name
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   27-Oct-2004   00:16   282,112   Owcintlff.msp (full-file/administrative)
   26-Oct-2004   23:56    86,016   Owcintlop.msp (optimized)
After you install the hotfix, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table: 
   Date          Time    Version       Size      File name
   --------------------------------------------------------
   06-Oct-2004   12:50   10.0.6620.0   551,648   Owci10.dll
Microsoft Office XP Multilingual User Interface Pack French Language component
   Date          Time    Size        File name
   --------------------------------------------------------
   27-Oct-2004   00:39   2,681,344   Fralpkff.msp (full-file/administrative)
   27-Oct-2004   00:24     112,128   Fralpkop.msp (optimized)
After you install the hotfix, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table: 
   Date          Time    Version       Size        File name
   --------------------------------------------------------------
   22-Jan-2004   17:41   10.0.5417.0     133,856   Contab32.dll     
   05-May-2004   04:47   10.0.6713.0     113,352   Emablt32.dll     
   19-May-2004   00:14   10.0.6713.0     203,456   Emsabp32.dll
   19-May-2004   00:14   10.0.6711.0     543,424   Emsmdb32.dll
   22-Jan-2004   17:41   10.0.6308.0     133,856   Emsui32.dll
   22-Jan-2004   17:41   10.0.6515.0     862,944   Msmapi32.dll
   22-Jan-2004   17:41   10.0.6515.0     543,456   Mspst32.dll
   16-Jul-2003   16:12   1.7.2.28        307,279   Msspell3.dll
   22-Jan-2004   17:41   10.0.6515.0     764,640   Outex.dll        
   19-May-2004   00:16   10.0.6711.0   2,083,520   Outllibr.dll     
   06-Oct-2004   12:50   10.0.6620.0     551,648   Owci10.dll       
   22-Jan-2004   17:41   10.0.6308.0     342,752   Pstprx32.dll     
   19-May-2004   00:14   10.0.6711.0     891,584   Wwintl.dll
Note For additional information about how to install this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the package.

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REFERENCES

For additional information about the terminology that Microsoft uses when correcting software after it is released, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

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Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:3/4/2006
Keywords:kbOfficeXPpostSP3fix kbQFE kbfix kbHotfixRollup KB887967 kbAudEndUser kbAudITPRO
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