Possible to install multiple updates at once?

[baja_joel]

For my Office XP/2002, Office Updates is showing about 40 available updates
going back 8 or 9 years just for Office XP. I've already completed some of
these updates in the past, but I guess Office Update shows everything -- both
the ones I've done and the ones not yet installed.

1. How can I tell which updates still need to be downloaded and installed?

2. Should I start with the oldest updates first, or start with the newest
and work backwards?

3. Can multiple updates be selected so that they all download and install
at once, or does each need to be selected and installed one at a time?

Thanks-

Joel

 

[Susan Ramlet]

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Susan Ramlet
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For my Office XP/2002, Office Updates is showing about 40 available
updates
going back 8 or 9 years just for Office XP. I've already completed some
of
these updates in the past, but I guess Office Update shows everything --
both
the ones I've done and the ones not yet installed.

1. How can I tell which updates still need to be downloaded and
installed?

Trust the update tool. If your Office is valid/legal/yours, and you have the
original installation media and product key, select them all and tell them
to install.

2. Should I start with the oldest updates first, or start with the newest
and work backwards?

Select them all and tell them to install. If a particular update cannot be
installed, it should tell you.

3. Can multiple updates be selected so that they all download and install
at once, or does each need to be selected and installed one at a time?

Try it. Some updates can be selected together and some cannot.

 

[baja_joel]

Thanks Susan.

I see how to select individual updates/downloads (click on the link,
download that file, run it, etc.), but what's the process for selecting
multiple updates at one time?

(I do have the original Office XP CD's and product key.)

Joel

 

[Susan Ramlet]

I'm not sure which site you're on, because there may be a couple. In
Microsoft Update (update.microsoft.com), the are checkboxes next to the
updates that you can select or de-select.

 

[Susan Ramlet]

The more I think about it, I think you might be on the Office Downloads
area, and not using the Microsoft Update site--could that be correct? That
would explain why it shows updates you already may have, as well as no
ability to select multiples.

 

[baja_joel]

Right, I'm in Office Downloads - all I see is 40 separate Office XP-related
files/links:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/FX101321101033.aspx?pid=CL100570421033

When I go to the link you listed (update.microsoft.com, either "Express" or
"Custom") only the XP operating system updates are there, no Office XP
updates.

How do I get to the checkboxes downlods you're referring to?

Joel

 

[Susan Ramlet]

If it doesn't detect any, then perhaps you're up to date.

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Out of curiosity, when you go to Office Online
(http://office.microsoft.com/ProductUpdates/default.aspx), do you see a
button in the upper right that says "Check for Updates"? If so, what happens
when you click on it?