Word 2000/2002 & Office XP Updates

The Word 2000/2002 Update: 25th April 2002

    This offers you the highest levels of performance and security available for Microsoft Word.

    This update is part of Microsoft"s continued effort to provide the latest product updates to customers. This update prevents Word from running ActiveX controls without warning when the user is using Word to edit e-mail messages with Outlook configured to disable script.

Requirements: Office 2000 SR-1 or Office XP SP-1 depending on which version of Office you have installed.

Download: Word 2000 Update - wrd0901.exe (3,389 Kb) and wrd0901a.exe (4,053 Kb)

Download: Word 2002 Update - wrd1003.exe (3,970 Kb) and wrd1003a.exe (4,934 Kb)

Office XP SP1 Speller Update: April 25, 2002

    Refreshes the dictionary of words referenced by Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). Some of the updated terminology comes from the following areas:

    • Surnames, street names, and company names.
    • Computer and communications technology terms.
    • Geographical place names and language names.
    • Improved quality of replacement suggestions.

    This update adds additional city names to the English dictionary in Office. The addition of these cities prevents the spelling checker from making potentially sensitive rewrite suggestions for cities ending in "abad" where "X-abad" would suggest "X bad."

Requirements: Office XP Service Pack 1 (SP-1) Update.

Download: oxpsu01.exe (697 Kb)

View: Microsoft Knowledge Base on this update (Q320664): Office Speller Update

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