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Word Updates
Microsoft® regularly published free updates
for both Word and Office. Updates for past and current versions are available.
Listed by version and reverse chronological order of Microsoft®
release. Check the Download Center for the most recent updates.
For Windows: Word 2002/XP, Word
2000 or Word 97
For Macintosh: Word X, Word 2001 or Word
98
Office
Product Updates
The Office Product Updates site can perform detection on your computer
and tell you exactly which updates you need! To take advantage of this service,
you must use MSN Explorer or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later.
Microsoft®
Office Download Center
Resource for updating your current version of Word and other programs in the Microsoft®Office
suite.
Word
2002
Word
2002 Update
This update prevents users from unintentionally updating links to external data
within Word 2002 documents. Posted 10-16-02.
Office
XP Update: Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Provides the latest updates to Office XP and contains significant security enhancements
and stability and performance improvements. Posted 7-16-02.
Office
XP Update: Service Pack 1 (SP-1)
Provides the latest updates to Office XP. SP-1 contains significant security enhancements
and stability and performance improvements. Prior Office XP updates are combined
into this package. Posted 11-21-01.
Word
2002 Update: Additional Help Files
This downloadable file contains the most current Word 2002 Help files and replaces
the existing ones. Posted 4-24-01.
Word
2002 Translation Services by Mendez Update
Enables Word 2002 to connect to translation services provided by Mendez. Translation
can be performed between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Posted 04-10-01.
Word
2002 Translation Services by WorldLingo Update
Enable Word 2002 to connect to translation services provided by WorldLingo.
Translation can be performed between a variety of languages. Posted 04-10-01.
Word
X
Get the latest Word and Office X for Macintosh updates from the Mactopia site.
Word
2001
Get the latest Word and Office 2001 for Macintosh updates from the Mactopia site.
Word 2000
Word
2000 Update: October 16, 2002
Prevents users from unintentionally updating links to external data within Word
documents. Posted 10-4-02.
Word
2000 Update: April 25, 2002
Prevents Word from running ActiveX controls without warning when the user is using
Word to edit e-mail message and has configured Outlook to disable script. Posted
4-4-02.
Word
2000 Security Update
Macro Vulnerability. Posted 05-08-01.
Word
2000 Mail Merge Security Update
Protects from a vulnerability in the mail merge function in Word by increasing
the security in the connection between Word mail merge documents and Access databases.
Posted 10-03-00.
Word
2000 Mail Command Security SR-1 Update
Eliminates a security vulnerability that could allow a hacker to send a virus
through e-mail by using the Word 2000 Visual Basic for Applications command Email
Send. Posted 08-01-00.
Word
2000 Security Update
Macro Vulnerability. Posted 05-08-01.
Word
2000 Proofing Tools Hyphenation Update
Corrects an issue with the hyphenation feature of the proofing tools so that
it works properly with long documents. Posted 07-18-00.
Word
2000 Malformed Conversion Data Vulnerability Patch
Eliminates a security vulnerability in the East Asian version of a utility
that converts Microsoft Word 5.0 documents to Word 2000 format. Posted 01-14-00.
Word
98
Get the latest Word and Office 98 for Macintosh updates from the Mactopia site.
 Word
97
Word
97 Security Macro Vulnerability Update
Prevents macros from launching without warning. Posted 05-15-01.
Word
97 Mail Merge Security Update
Protects against a vulnerability in the mail merge function by increasing
the security in the connection between Word mail merge documents and Access databases.
Posted 10-31-00.
Word
97 Leap Year Patch
Addresses a date field issue that occurs when a document is saved as a Word
6.0/85, Rich Text Format, or Web page. Date fields that display the weekday name
may be incorrect if the date falls within a leap year. Posted 05-02-00.
Word
97 & 98 Malformed Conversion Data Vulnerability Patch
Eliminates a security vulnerability in the East Asian version of a utility
that converts Microsoft Word 5.0 documents to Word 97/98 format. Posted 01-14-00.
Word
97 Template Security Patch
Warns users when they are about to open a template that contains macros. Posted
09-19-99.
Word
97 Hyperlinks Update
Makes changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer so that a program is not automatically
launched after clicking a hyperlink to a program and canceling the dialog that
comes up. Posted 09-16-99.
Word
97 Web Documents Toolkit
The Web Authoring Tools update makes working with HTML documents in Word easier.
Posted 06-18-98.
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