Service pack information
This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 3.To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
870924 How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003
Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next service pack that contains this hotfix.
To resolve this problem, submit a request to Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain the hotfix. To submit an online request to obtain the hotfix, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Note If additional issues occur or any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. To create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Prerequisites
This hotfix package is a post Office 2003 Service Pack 2 hotfix package. To install the hotfix package, you must have Office 2003 Service Pack 2 installed.
For more information about Office 2003 Service Pack 2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
870924
How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003
Restart information
You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix package.
Hotfix replacement information
This hotfix is not replaced by any later hotfix.
Registry information
You must create a registry key or modify a registry key to use one of the hotfixes that this package contains.
For more information about the registry key, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
928423
The results of a calculation that uses the "LINEST" function in Excel 2003 may differ from the results in earlier versions of Excel
File information
This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build. This hotfix contains only the files that you must have to correct the issues that this article lists.The global version of this hotfix package uses a Microsoft Windows Installer package to install the hotfix package. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in the following table. When you view the file information, the date is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the
Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.
Download information
| File name | File version | File size | Date | Time |
|---|
| Office2003-kb928424-glb.exe | 11.0.8116.0 | 5,135,680 | 13-Nov-2006 | 20:43 |
Microsoft Windows Installer .msp file information
| File name | File size | Date | Time |
|---|
| Excel.msp | 9,714,176 | 13-Nov-2006 | 20:41 |
After the hotfix is installed, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes, or a later version of the file attributes, that are listed in the following table:
| File name | File version | File size | Date | Time |
|---|
| Excel.exe | 11.0.8116.0 | 10,270,480 | 10-Nov-2006 | 19:46 |
Additional notes
| � | For more information about how to install this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the hotfix package. |
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For more information about the terminology that Microsoft uses for software that is corrected after it is released, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824684
Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates
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