XL97: Overview and History of Excel Patches

ID: Q232652

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SUMMARY

This article lists and describes the service releases and patches for Microsoft Excel 97.


MORE INFORMATION

To determine what version of Microsoft Excel you are running, use any of the following methods, and then locate the version number in the "Versions of Excel 97" table later in this article.

Method 1: Use the "About Microsoft Excel" Command

Click About Microsoft Excel on the Help menu in Microsoft Excel. Note the version number listed in the dialog box.

Method 2: Identify the Excel.exe File

To determine the version number from your Excel.exe file, follow these steps:
  1. Use Microsoft Windows Explorer to locate the Excel.exe file.

    The default location for this file is the following folder:
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office
    NOTE: If you are running Microsoft Excel 97 from a network server, Excel.exe is located on the network server.


  2. Right-click the Excel.exe file. On the shortcut menu, click Properties.


  3. On the Version tab, note the File version.



Method 3: Use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications

You can also determine which version of Microsoft Excel you have installed by checking the value returned by Application.Build or Application.Version in a Visual Basic for Applications macro.

Versions of Excel 97



 Excel           Help              File     Application.Build/   Patches/SRs
 version         menu (About)      version  Application.Version  Included
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 Excel 97        Excel 97          8.0      3515 / 8.0           n/a

 Excel 97 SR-1   Excel 97 SR-1     8.0a     4307 / 8.0a          n/a

 Excel 97 SR-1   Excel 97 SR-1     8.0b     4307 / 8.0a          SR-1
 and Xl8p1.exe                                                      

 Excel 97 SR-1   Excel 97 SR-1     8.0c     4307 / 8.0a          SR-1, 
 and Xl8p2.exe                                                   Xl8p1.exe

 Excel 97 SR-1   Excel 97 SR-1     8.0d     4308 / 8.0d          SR-1,
 and Xl8p3.exe                                                   Xl8p1.exe,
                                                                 Xl8p2.exe

 Excel 97 SR-2   Excel 97 SR-2     8.0e     5618 / 8.0e          SR-1,
                                                                 Xl8p1.exe,
                                                                 Xl8p2.exe,
                                                                 Xl8p3.exe

 Excel 97 SR-2   Excel 97 SR-2(f)  8.0f     5619 / 8.0f          All fixes 
 and Xl8p4.exe                                                   in SR-2

 Excel 97 SR-2   Excel 97 SR-2(g)  8.0g     5620 / 8.0g          All fixes
 and Xl8p5.exe                                                   in SR-2, 
                                                                 Xl8p4.exe

 Excel 97 SR-2   Excel 97 SR-2(h)  8.0h     6416 / 8.0h          All fixes
 and Xl8p6.exe                                                   in SR-2, 
                                                                 Xl8p4.exe,
                                                                 Xl8p5.exe

Excel 97 SR-1 (8.0a)

Microsoft Excel 97 SR-1, includes a number of updates for each program in Microsoft Excel 97.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q172475 OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-1

Excel 97 SR-1 (8.0b)

Microsoft Excel 97 SR-1 with Excel 97 Auto Recalculation Patch. Replaced with Xl8p2.exe (8.0c).

Excel 97 SR-1 (8.0c)

Microsoft Excel 97 SR-1 with the updated Excel 97 Auto Recalculation Patch. Replaced with Xl8p3.exe (8.0d).

Excel 97 SR-1 (8.0d)

Microsoft Excel 97 Auto-Recalculation Patch for use with Microsoft Excel 97 SR-1. In Microsoft Excel 97 and Microsoft Excel 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1), worksheet values may not be recalculated correctly when certain conditions are true.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q174868 XL97: How to Obtain the Excel 97 Auto Recalculation Patch

Excel 97 SR-2 (8.0e)

Microsoft Excel 97 SR-2, a collection of fixes for Microsoft Excel 97.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q192874 OFF97: An Overview of Microsoft Office 97 SR-2

Excel 97 SR-2 (8.0f)

The "Excel 97 SR-2 CALL Function Patch," designed to update Microsoft Excel 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2). Microsoft has released a patch for Microsoft Excel 97 that fixes a vulnerability that could allow certain types of executables to be run without a warning to the user.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q196791 XL97: Patch Available for Excel CALL Vulnerability

Excel 97 SR-2 (8.0g)

The "Excel 97 Range Object Patch." Corrects a problem running a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro, when you implicitly set the value of a Range object.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q221568 XL97: Implicitly Setting Value of Range Object Crashes Excel

Excel 97 SR-2 (8.0h)

The "Excel Security Patch," designed to update Microsoft Excel 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2). This patch fixes a vulnerability to its Macro Virus Warning.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q231304 XL97: Patch Available for Excel 97 Virus Warning Vulnerabilities

Additional query words: XL97 


Keywords          : kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: July 19, 1999