As submitted to http://acanac.org/blogs/geek/

For those of you who decided to brave the new world a year ago and install Microsoft's Office 2007 product, great news has arrived for you.  Microsoft has released the long-awaited, first service pack for the Office 2007 suite of products.  I am personally over-joyed.  Whenever Microsoft releases a service pack, it means that the level of quality in their products, due to a lack of testing, improves.  The result is a product that starts to perform like it was designed to do.

The service pack includes the following:

Security bulletins that are associated with this service pack

The 2007 Microsoft Office suite SP1 is associated with the following security bulletins:

934233 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934233/) MS07-023: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel could allow remote code execution

934873 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934873/) MS07-025: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office could allow remote code execution

936227 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936227/) MS07-042: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution

936542 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936542/) MS07-036: Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel could allow remote code execution

Earlier released updates that this service pack includes

The 2007 Microsoft Office suite SP1 includes the following earlier released updates:

932080 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932080/) Description of the update for the 2007 Office programs: April 9, 2007

933493 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933493/) Description of the update for Outlook 2007: April 13, 2007

933688 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933688/) Description of the security update for the 2007 Office system: May 8, 2007

934062 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934062/) Description of the security update for the 2007 Office system: May 8, 2007

934173 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934173/) Description of the update for Word 2007: May 8, 2007

934390 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934390/) Description of the update for the 2007 Office programs: May 18, 2007

934391 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934391/) Description of the update for the 2007 Office system: May 8, 2007

934393 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934393/) Description of the update for the 2007 Office system: May 8, 2007

934395 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934395/) Description of the update for the 2007 Office programs: May 18, 2007

934670 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934670/) Description of the security update for Excel 2007: May 8, 2007

935569 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935569/) Error message when you start a 2007 Office program on a computer that is running Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager: "Office application version does not match"

936056 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936056/) Description of the security update for the 2007 Microsoft Office system servers: August 14, 2007

936509 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936509/) Description of the security update for Excel 2007: July 10, 2007

936514 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936514/) Description of the security update for the 2007 Office system and for the Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system: July 10, 2007

936646 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936646/) Description of the security update for Publisher 2007: July 10, 2007

936960 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936960/) Description of the security update for the 2007 Microsoft Office system: August 14, 2007

937608 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937608/) Description of the update for Outlook 2007: July 10, 2007

Known issues

942101 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942101/) You receive an error message when you try to apply any of the 2007 Office Service Pack 1 packages on a computer that is running Windows XP Service Pack 2

942620 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942620/) You receive an error message when you try to install the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 on a computer that does not have Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 installed

942995 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942995/) You are prompted unexpectedly to restart the computer after you install a 2007 Office service pack or a 2007 Office update

943081 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943081/) When you view any 2007 Office system Service Pack 1 update under "Add or Remove Programs" in Control Panel, the title of the update contains garbage characters

943082 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943082/) After you cancel the installation of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1, some parts of the service pack remain on the computer

943087 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943087/) The Document Scanning tool crashes when you use the tool to scan a document after you install the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1

946205 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946205/) Error message when you try to open a compiled database file or a compiled project file in Access 2007: "This database is in an unrecognized format"

938574 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938574/) Description of the Input Method Editor (Japanese) 2007 hotfix package: June 20, 2007

For a complete reference you can visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936982 .  You can download the service pack by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9EC51594-992C-4165-A997-25DA01F388F5&displaylang=en , heading over to Microsoft Update, or Vista users can get it by running Windows Update from their start menu.