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Now Available: Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

Apr. 28, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

From Microsoft:

Today Microsoft is releasing Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. This service pack delivers significant stability, performance and interoperability improvements for customers, including additional file format support, and offers enhancements for Microsoft Office Outlook, such as improved calendaring reliability and general performance.  To download Office 2007 SP2, visit the Microsoft web site.  Please note that SP2 will be available for download starting around 11 a.m. PDT.

(It's available now, I just grabbed it.)

The enhancements in SP2 span across the servers and software applications that home and office workers rely on daily and make the 2007 Office system an even more effective productivity tool.  Service Pack 2 also makes interoperating with Office easier for developers by providing tools and resources to make the development process shorter and more cost effective.

More info:

The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)

The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides customers with the latest updates to the 2007 Office suite (the products that are affected by this update are listed below). This download includes two types of fixes:

Previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack.

In addition to general product fixes, this includes improvements in stability, performance, and security.
You can find out more information in Knowledge Base Article 953195, where product-specific changes are described.

All of the Public Updates, Security Updates, Cumulative Updates, and Hotfixes released through February 2009.

Before installing this service pack, you are strongly encouraged to read 953195, which describes some big improvements introduced by SP2, and also calls out some important information that you should be aware of before installing.

Office Service Pack 2 A Significant Stability, Performance and Interoperability Upgrade

Q&A: Group Program Manager Jane Liles talks about the enhancements now available through Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Working with ODF in Word 2007 SP2 (blog post)

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Kiosk (blog post)

UPDATE: Colin M. mentioned via email that Visio, Project, SharePoint Designer, and Office Servers have separate SP2 downloads. These are:

Visio

Project

SharePoint Designer

Office Servers

Discuss this Article 19

Adobaw
on Apr 28, 2009
I have downloaded it I will be testing it as time goes on.
johnbaxter
on Apr 28, 2009
So they now support the Maltese lira but not the Maltese falcon. Seriously, this looks like a worthwhile advance. Will install soon.
psuchad
on Apr 28, 2009
When is Microsoft going to allow easy printing of Envelopes directly from Outlook? Seems like a no brainer that you should be able to do this from the source of your contact information instead of opening a new document in Word.
stimshady
on Apr 28, 2009
nice, cheers Paul, was wondering if this would be out soon. Looks like the servers are getting a bit hit though, not the usual MS download speeds at the mo...
Waethorn
on Apr 28, 2009
"Seems like a no brainer that you should be able to do this from the source of your contact information instead of opening a new document in Word." It would seem to make more sense to do that when typing up the document that goes in said letter. At least, that's what Microsoft thought when they implemented the envelope labelling feature in Word's Mail Merge functionality. You can import Outlook contacts into Mail Merge too, of course.
Waethorn
on Apr 28, 2009
Any word on when this will hit WU servers?
psuchad
on Apr 28, 2009
@ Waethorn 90% of the time I am not writing a letter when I print an envelope. I am usually mailing bills or some other item that is already printed out. For example, I receive a bill from my garbage collector. It is a simple "return this invoice with payment job". If they have a change of address I must open Outlook, change their address, leave Outlook open (won't work with Outlook closed), open Word, go through the envelope dialog, the dialog opens a connector to Outlook to bring the address over to Word, then I print. Now wouldn't this be a whole lot easier to just right click on a contact in Outlook and select "print envelope"?
johnbaxter
on Apr 28, 2009
Now available in Windows Update. It's the old 8-part Service Pack trick. More accurately, one service pack (and for my Home and Student edition) 7 help module updates. Probably more help updates for higher versions. Incoming now here. I don't know whether those who downloaded from the site got the help updates--one might want to check later. The new system for adding file format conversions looks quite nice: an added format becomes a first class citizen, including the ability to be made the default for saving.
Waethorn
on Apr 28, 2009
IE8 was also published to MU today.
Waethorn
on Apr 28, 2009
Office SP2 is already on MU too.
Waethorn
on Apr 28, 2009
Also available: Sharepoint 3.0 SP2 (it's part of the Office family too though), as well as UR2 for SBS 2008.
johnbaxter
on Apr 28, 2009
And Microsoft Update has--as of yesterday evening--something for my particular Dell monitor model. I think I'll read the description before installing that.
Waethorn
on Apr 28, 2009
There's another one of those updates "for successful installation of future updates" on SBS too. There could be others after that.
Waethorn
on Apr 28, 2009
Having SP2 available now is extremely welcome here. Now I can easily preinstall a boatload of updates as well as the PDF export plugin for Office in one step. Office allows you to put MSP updates in the Updates folder in the installation source, and the base installer will automatically launch those updater files in silent mode at the end of the base install. Preinstalling Office on systems can't be much easier. Now if only they could do the same thing with Windows....
slimshadey
on Apr 28, 2009
sharepoint SP2 fixes problems with FF and Safari.
techfan
on Apr 28, 2009
Pardon the off-topic post y'all but I just wanted to thank Waethorn for the info and links. @Waethorn: Paul closed the other thread before I could respond (always happens to me). I had heard of Paint Shop Pro but not of Photomatrix. I think the latter is the way to go :-) The user gallery is nice! Thanks again. Sorry again for the off-topic post y'all.
Waethorn
on Apr 28, 2009
@techfan: It's "Photomatix", like "_matics". It's a nice program. Paint Shop Pro has similar functionality, but it's not as centered on doing HDR stuff as Photomatix. If you're shooting in RAW mode, you can get similar output to merged-exposure images. It's almost the same. You still need a program that will do 48-bit colour tone remapping to 24-bit though. When you take a 48-bit colour RAW or merged-HDR image down to a standard 24-bit colour image, you're actually just compressing the colour range in different areas of the image to something that's more moderate and balanced.
techfan
on Apr 28, 2009
@Waethorn. I guess I had "The Matrix" in my head (though I've never seen the movie). Wow. Thanks for the info. I'm actually on the market for a digital camera (something in the mid price range). Miami (FL) has a great skyline and doing HDR shots of it would be cool. Thanks again for the great info Waethorn!
wjglenn141
on Apr 28, 2009
"Now wouldn't this be a whole lot easier to just right click on a contact in Outlook and select "print envelope"?" I agree it should be built into Outlook. I also think I should be able to write and print a letter to a contact from without Outlook. There is this add-on, but it is not free (and no, I'm not affiliated with the company): http://www.tools4contacts.com/home.html

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