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INTRODUCTION
This article describes technical information about each of the Service Pack 2 (SP2) updates that have been released for the 2007 Microsoft Office client products. This article discusses the following for each update file in SP2:
A link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article that describes the package. The Knowledge Base article provides more information about the fixes that each service pack package contains.
A link to the Microsoft Download Center Web pages where users can download the packages.
A table that shows detailed information about each of the Microsoft patches (MSPs) that are contained in each update, and the files that are included in each English version of the update files in SP2.

Note These tables only list the versioned files that are included in Service Pack 2. Additional files that do not have versions, such as images or .xml files, are excluded from this list.
This article describes all SP2 updates for the 2007 Office client products. Therefore, this article is lengthy. If you are looking for information about a particular package, please use the table of contents, or search for the update title or KB number.
How to determine whether the service pack is installed

This article helps you determine whether the service pack is installed. To verify the installed version of a 2007 Office product, we recommend that you check the list of installed programs in Windows XP or Windows Vista.

For more information about how to determine which version of a 2007 Office product is installed, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
928116 How to determine which version of a 2007 Office product is installed

The first beta of Microsoft Office 2007, referred to as Beta-1 in emails sent to a small number of testers, was released on November 16, 2005. The Beta-1 Technical Refresh was released to testers on March 13, 2006. The Technical Refresh fixed issues in installing with Windows Vista build 5308.

Microsoft revealed the ribbon on March 9, 2006 at CeBIT in Germany.[12]

Office 2007 Beta 2 was announced by Bill Gates at WinHEC 2006, and was initially released to the public at no cost from Microsoft's web site. However, because of an unprecedented number of downloads, a fee of $1.50 was introduced for each product downloaded after August 2, 2006. The beta was updated on September 14, 2006 in Beta 2 Technical Refresh (Beta2TR). It included an updated user interface, better accessibility support, improvements in the robustness of the platform, and greater functionality.

The beta versions continued to function in a reduced functionality mode after February 1, 2007. If users downloaded the Technical Refresh to update Beta 2, then users could use its full functionality until March 31, 2007 for client products and May 15, 2007 for server products. The Beta program ended on November 8, 2006, when Microsoft declared the product "Released to Manufacturing" (RTM) and started manufacturing the final product. After RTM, the availability of the beta download ended.

Office 2007 was released to volume licensing customers on November 30, 2006, and to the general public on January 30, 2007.

Service packs[edit]
Since the release of Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft has released three service packs, cumulative updates that contain all previous updates released for Microsoft Office 2007 as well as additional features.

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 was released on December 11, 2007.[13] Official documentation claims that SP1 is not simply a rollup of publicly released patches, but that it also contains fixes for 455 total issues throughout the entire Office suite.[14] Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released on April 28, 2009.[15] It added improved support for ODF, XPS and PDF standards as well as bug fixes.[16][17] Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 was released on October 25, 2011.[18] Although Microsoft description article of Service Pack 3 says it contains all previous updates,[19] the package description page in Microsoft Download Center requires Service Pack 1 or 2 to be installed prior to installing Service Pack 3.[18]