
Only then can you tell if the update is relevant to you or might affect existing programs or add-ins. They are intended as a convenience for larger customers who can push out these updates to their many Office users.īut before you apply such a patch you’d like to know what issues are dealt with in the update. Each cumulative update has all hotfixes since the last full Office Service Pack.

Just one exhibit is a recent article about a cumulative update for Office 2003.Ĭumulative updates are a bundling of the interim fixes and security updates for Office into a single download – starting recently they are scheduled to come out every second month.

If you get confused by the documentation for Office updates, don’t think it’s your fault, some of the Microsoft’s documentation is very poor.
