Hiii
1. i installed Word XP only a long time ago coz it was my
main interest.
2. After office SP3 has been released, i applied it
3. These days, i have found myself need 2 use Excel so i
installed it from the original CD-ROM

But the strange thing is that when i clicl on help-about
in Excel, it reads: Microsoft Excel 2002 (10.6501.6626)SP3

And this means that Excel is updated too but how can this
happen without re-applying the patch and do i really need
2 re-apply the patch even though Excel's version give me
the impression that it has been updated someway (although
i have installed it from the native CD!!!)

THX