Microsoft has released an update to Microsoft Word 2002. This update resolves a flaw in Word 2002 that could allow unsigned macros in specially crafted documents to run automatically regardless of the macro security level settings of the user. This Word 2002 update is part of the continued effort by Microsoft to provide the latest product updates to customers.

This article describes how to download and install the Word 2002 Security Patch: KB824934.

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How to download and install the update

Important Before you install this update, make sure that the following requirements have been met:

•	Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0 Before you install this update, you must install Windows Installer 2.0 or later. For additional information about this requirement, see the "Windows Installer Update Requirements" section of this article.
•	Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP-2) Before you install this update, install Office XP SP-2.
•	For more information about how to install Office XP Service Pack 2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 325671 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325671/) Overview of the Office XP Service Pack 2

Client update

If you installed Word from a CD-ROM, you have the following two options:

•	Use the Office Product Updates Web site to automatically install all the latest updates that include all available service packs and public updates. -or-
•	Install only the Word 2002 Security Patch: KB824934 by following the steps that are described later in this article.

Note Microsoft recommends that you install the client update by using the Office Product Updates Web site. The Office Product Updates Web site detects your particular installation of Microsoft Office and prompts you to install exactly what you must have to make sure that your Office installation is completely up-to-date.

Office Product Updates Web Site

To have the Office Product Updates Web site detect the required updates that you must install on your computer, visit the following Microsoft Web site: After detection is complete, you receive a list of recommended updates for your approval. Click Start Installation to complete the process.

Install Only the Word 2002 Security Patch: KB824934

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the OfficeXP-KB824934-Client-Enu.exe package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/2/4/b24b3867-2b5b-44d0-a841-f277fd6c41b6/officexp-kb824934-client-enu.exe)

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help to prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

After you click the link to download the update, follow these steps:

1.	Click Save to save the OfficeXP-kb824934-client-enu.exe file to the selected folder.
2.	In Windows Explorer, double-click OfficeXP-kb824934-client-enu.exe.
3.	If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
4.	Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
5.	Insert your Office XP CD-ROM when you are prompted to do so, and then click OK.
6.	When you receive a message that indicates the installation was successful, click OK.

Note After you install the update, you cannot remove it. To revert to an installation before the update was installed, you must remove Office XP, and then install it again from the original CD-ROM.

Administrative update

If you installed your Office XP product from a server location, the server administrator must update the server location with the administrative update and deploy that update to your computer.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the OfficeXP-KB824934-Fullfile-Enu.exe package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/2/4/b24b3867-2b5b-44d0-a841-f277fd6c41b6/officexp-kb824934-fullfile-enu.exe)

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help to prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.
If you are the server administrator, after you click the link to download the administrative update follow these steps:

1.	Click Save to save the OfficeXP-kb824934-fullfile-enu.exe file to the selected folder.
2.	In Windows Explorer, double-click OfficeXP-kb824934-fullfile-enu.exe.
3.	If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
4.	Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
5.	In the Type the location where you want to place the extracted files box, type c:\KB824934, and then click OK.
6.	Click Yes when you are prompted to create the folder.
7.	If you are familiar with the procedure for updating your administrative installation, click Start, and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box msiexec /a Admin Path\MSI File /p C:\KB824934\MSP File SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE where Admin Path is the path of your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), MSI File is the .msi database package for the Office XP product (for example, Data1.msi), and MSP File is the name of the administrative update. Note You can append /qb+ to the command line so that the Office XP Administrative Installation dialog box and the End User License Agreement dialog box do not appear.
8.	To deploy the update to the client workstations, click Start, and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box msiexec /i Admin Path\MSI File REINSTALL=Feature List REINSTALLMODE=vomu where Admin Path is the path of your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), MSI File is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, Data1.msi), and Feature List is the list of feature names (case sensitive) that have to be reinstalled for the update. To install all features, you can use REINSTALL=ALL, or you can install the following feature(s): • WORDFiles

For additional information about how to update your administrative installation and deploy to client workstations, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: This article contains standard instructions for installing an administrative public update. You can also see the following article in the Microsoft Office Resource Kit. To do so, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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How to determine if the update is installed

The update contains updated versions of the following files:

   File name    Version
   ------------------------
   Winword.exe  10.0.5522.0

To determine the version of Word 2002 that is installed on your computer, follow these steps.

Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.

1.	Click Start, and then click Search.
2.	In the Search Results pane, click All files and folders under Search Companion.
3.	In the All or part of the file name box, type Winword.exe, and then click Search.
4.	In the list of files, right-click Winword.exe, and then click Properties.
5.	On the Version tab, determine the version of Word that is installed on your computer.

For additional information about how to determine the version of Word 2002 on your computer, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Note If the Word 2002 Security Patch: KB824934 is already installed on your computer, you receive the following error message when you try to install the Word 2002 Security Patch: KB824934:

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Windows Installer update requirements

To install the update that is described in this article requires Windows Installer 2.0 or later. Both Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) include Windows Installer 2.0 or later. To install the latest version of the Windows Installer, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites.

Windows Installer for Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, and Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me): Windows Installer for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000:

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List of issues that are fixed by the update

The Word 2002 Security Patch: KB824934 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:



The Word 2002 Security Patch: KB824934 fixes issues that are documented in the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-035. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

The Word 2002 Security Patch: KB824934 fixes the following issues that were previously not documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

WD2002: Word cannot perform a second mail merge in a single Word session

When you use Word to interface with a document management system (DMS) and you try to perform multiple mail merge operations, you can merge records from the text data source the first time, but you cannot merge the records a second time during the same Word session.

INCLUDETEXT field in an e-mailed Word document may include text from a different file

When you return a Word document that contains an INCLUDETEXT field in an e-mail when Word is your e-mail editor, the contents of a different file on your computer may be included in the returned Word document.

Start of paragraph is overprinted

When you print a document with the Automatically hyphenate document feature turned on, the end of the last paragraph may overprint the start of the paragraph.

WD2002: The Mail Merge function does not merge all the characters in the data source

When you use the Mail Merge function in Word 2002, some of the extended characters may be lost or replaced with a blank space, such as character code 0172 (the nonbreaking space).

WD2002: The changes are not applied if your last change is a font change if you press CTRL + Y to repeat an action

When you press the CTRL + Y key combination to repeat an action in Word 2002, the change is not applied to the selected line of text if the last change is a font change or a font size change.

Word stops responding when you paste a selection as RTF into other programs

When you copy a large selection of text and tehn paste the text as Rich Text Format (RTF) into another program, Word may stop responding.

WD2000: Error message when you try to close open messages

If you have several messages open from a personal folders (.pst) file in Outlook 2000, and you have Word as your e-mail editor, you receive the following error message, and Word 2000 or Outlook 2000 may stop responding when you try to close each open message by clicking the "X" button at the upper right corner of the message:

Word is slow when iterating through Paragraphs collection in a mail merge document

A Word 2002 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) routine that steps through the Paragraphs collection of a document runs very slowly when a mail merge data source is attached to the document.

Word document opened in Microsoft Internet Explorer may quit unexpectedly

When you click the Back button in Internet Explorer, Word may quit unexpectedly. This problem may occur when your Word 2002 document opened in Internet Explorer contains ActiveX controls (textboxes).

Long comments may be truncated or may not be shown completely in the ScreenTip

When you pause your mouse pointer over a comment in a Microsoft Word document, one of the following problems may occur:

•	A portion of the comment may appear in the comment ScreenTip.
•	The comment may not appear in the comment ScreenTip.

Directory mail merge into a table causes table to be corrupted

When you perform a directory mail merge into a table using a text file, the table in the directory mail merge may be damaged when the data source contains carriage returns.

Hyperlinks inserted in RTF e-mail message appear merged together

When you use Microsoft Word as your E-mail Editor in Microsoft Outlook, if you insert multiple attachments as hyperlinks in a Rich Text Format (RTF) e-mail message, the attachments (hyperlinks) do not appear separated. Instead, the hyperlinks appear merged together.

When you print a document containing a NUMPAGES field, the NUMPAGES field is not updated and may print the result of the field with an incorrect value. This problem may occur when the following conditions are all true:

•	The Update fields option on the Print tab (on the Tools menu, click Options) is turned on.
•	A header in the document contains an INCLUDEPICTURE, EMBED or LINK field.
•	The INCLUDEPICTURE, EMBED or LINK field is in-line with text.
•	You delete text, therefore reducing the number of pages contained in your document, and then you print the document.

Zip code/postal code is missing when you merge with Microsoft Outlook Contacts

When you do a mail merge and use Outlook Contacts as your data source, the zip code or postal code may not merge when you use the address block merge field.

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