One of our preferred readers created in today asking exactly how to inform if his Word 2007 installation was running Service Pack 1, considering that he could not find the About dialog, which obtained me thinking … I wager most individuals don’t know where it is!

So Jeff, this write-up is for you, yet hopefully it will assist someone else as well. This same approach ought to benefit all Office applications: Word, Excel, Access, and all the remainder.

First click on the Office button in the top left-hand edge.

Now click the Word Options switch in the menu (or Excel choices for Excel, and so on)

Select the Resources tab on the left-hand pane, and afterwards you’ll see “about Microsoft Office Word 2007” in the listing.

You can click the About switch to raise About dialog … and also look, I’m running SP1 and didn’t also realize it.

You can do the same thing for any type of Office application.