Notice From Microsoft - Office 2003 SP3 Part Of WU

Be aware that Microsoft is giving all users of Office 2003 a months warning that SP3 will be apart of Windows Update service. This means that SP3 could inadvertently be installed onto your system. You may recall that there were some issues with SP3 for Office for both versions 2003 and 2007 when they were unable to read older files formats. You may wish to take this into consideration before applying the service pack.

FWIW - once a service pack is installed for Office 2003 and 2007 it can not be uninstalled. On their site Microsoft states:

You cannot remove service packs for Office 2003 products or 2007 Office products

INTRODUCTION

When you try to remove a Microsoft Office 2003 service pack or a 2007 Microsoft Office service pack from your computer, and then you try to revert to your original installation of Office 2003 or your original installation of 2007 Office, you cannot remove the service pack.

MORE INFORMATION

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loadTOCNode(1, ‘moreinformation’);For example, when you click Service Pack 1 for Office 2003 in the Currently installed programs and updates list of the Add or Remove Programs dialog box, the Remove button does not appear. This behavior occurs by design in Office 2003 service packs and 2007 Office service packs. If the service pack was removed, your Office 2003 installation or 2007 Office installation may be left in an unstable state.

To remove Office 2003 service packs or 2007 Office service packs from your computer, you must remove all the Office 2003 programs or all the 2007 Office programs, and then reinstall all the Office 2003 programs or all the 2007 Office programs from your original Office 2003 CD-ROM or your original 2007 Office CD-ROM.

Article ID	:	873125
Last Review	:	December 11, 2007
Revision	:	3.0

Comments welcome.

Additional information from Microsoft can be found here.

[tags] office 2003, 2007, service pack 3, windows update, 30 day notice, [/tags]