Description of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: March 9, 2004

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.
• Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)
  
  Before you install this update, install Office XP SP3.
  
  For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  832671  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832671/ ) Description of Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3

Important

If you use the Multilingual User Interface Pack, do not install this update. Instead, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Client update

If you installed Microsoft Office XP from a CD-ROM, you have the following two options:

• Use the Microsoft Office Product Updates Web site to automatically install all the latest updates that include all available service packs and public updates.
• Install only the Microsoft Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 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 client version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the Korean version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/0/0/4001ac2e-87dc-481a-9815-6289c642f376/officexp-kb832670-client-kor.exe)
Download the Chinese Pan version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/c/1/dc10fc03-38ad-448b-a182-a55fbfb4c1ae/officexp-kb832670-client-zhh.exe)
Download the Chinese Traditional version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/d/20dbb1d3-0a44-472b-ba85-b305f852e325/officexp-kb832670-client-cht.exe)
Download the Chinese Simplified version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/d/2/ed214ca5-38b0-4a07-b0d9-c948f7303e8e/officexp-kb832670-client-chs.exe)
Download the Japanese version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/d/6/7d63bb10-ac42-48be-bd49-df88db7814fb/officexp-kb832670-client-jpn.exe)
Release Date: March 9, 2004

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. To download and install the client update, follow these steps:

1. Click Open to start the download and installation of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670.
2. If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
3. Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
4. Insert your Office XP CD-ROM if you are prompted to do so, and then click OK.
5. 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.

Note If you want to deploy the Japanese version of this update, see the "Additional administrative update information" section of this article.

If you are the server administrator, follow these steps to download the administrative update:

1. Visit the following Microsoft Web site:
   http://www.microsoft.com/office/orkarchive/XPddl.htm (http://www.microsoft.com/office/orkarchive/XPddl.htm)
2. Click the Office XP product update patch that you want to download.
3. Click Save to save the update installation file to the selected folder.
   
   Note The update installation file for the language that you selected in step 2 is listed in the following table:
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   Language	Update Installation File
   Chinese (Traditional)	Officexp-kb832670-fullfile-cht.exe
   Chinese Pan	Officexp-kb832670-fullfile-zhh.exe
   Chinese (Simplified)	Officexp-kb832670-fullfile-chs.exe
   Korean	Officexp-kb832670-fullfile-kor.exe

4. In Windows Explorer, double-click the installation file (for example, double-click Officexp-kb832670-fullfile-cht.exe).
5. If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
6. Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
7. In the Type the location where you want to place the extracted files box, type c:\kb832670, and then click OK.
8. Click Yes when you are prompted to create the folder.
9. 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 AdminPath\MSI File /p C:\kb832670\MSI File SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE
   where Admin Path is the path of your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), and MSI File is the .msi database package for the Office XP product (for example, Proplus.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.
10. To deploy the update to the client workstations, click Start, and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box
    msiexec /i AdminPath\MSI FileREINSTALL=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, Proplus.msi), and FeatureList 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:
    IMEMain

Additional administrative update information

There is no administrative installation file for the Japanese version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670. The update is made up of one executable file (the Officexp-kb832670-client-jpn.exe file) that must be run on each client computer that runs the Japanese version of Microsoft Office XP.

To deploy the Japanese client version of Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670, you can save the executable file to a file server, and then use one of the following methods:

• Add a line to the NT logon script or Active Directory Computer Startup script that instructs the user’s computer to run the file.
• Use software distribution software, such as Microsoft System Management Server (SMS), to run a script that instructs the file to be run on the user’s computer.
• Provide users with a command-line or a batch file that will execute the installation for the user.
• Instruct users to locate the file on the file server and execute the installation by double-clicking on the file.

For additional information about command-line switches for Internet Express (IExpress) packages, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: To deploy the Japanese version of Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 to users who install Office XP from an administrative installation point in the future, you can use one of the following methods:

• Use the Setup.ini Customization Wizard to chain the installation to the Office XP install.
• Include an entry in the Custom Installation Wizard to run the executable during the Office XP install.

For additional information about how to chain additional installations with an Office XP installation, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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:

How to determine whether the update is installed

The update contains updated versions of the following files:


To determine if the update 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 the name of one of the files that is listed in the previousl list depending on your language, and then click Search.
4. In the list of files, right-click the found file, and then click Properties.
5. On the Version tab, determine the version of the file that is installed on your computer.

Note If the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 is already installed on your computer, you receive the following error message when you try to install the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670:

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:

List of issues that are fixed by the update

The Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:



The Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 fixes the following Japanese Office XP Input Method Editor issue that was previously not documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

The Input Method Editor retains the settings from last the Microsoft Windows Terminal Services session

When you log on to a Windows Terminal Services session, your Japanese Input Method Editor may retain the same settings as your previous Terminal Services session. This problem occurs because your Windows Logon session could not remove your temporary user profile when you logged off your previous Terminal Services session.