I'm self-answering so that anyone else can do this or a similar action. @Moab and @Ramhound pointed me to https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx
where everything can be found if you know how to search. This is what I did:
I installed Office2003 and also SP3 (Office2003SP3-KB923618-FullFile-ENU.exe
) and FileFormatConverters.exe
which I already had.
Run Windows Update (several times) and note the KB numbers of all updates (see note A). Create an empty directory (folder) for each of them. Or use my list given below.
Go to catalog.update.microsoft
and search on each KB number; download the appropriate one(s) for your configuration/language to the appropriate directory. In a few cases there may be more than one download and/or the download may be language-dependent.
The downloads will be cabinet (CAB) files with names like fm20_86bc3fbc23d82c942ebe6e5b5542dd49572d26a5.cab
. Double-clicking the CAB file will show the patch inside it; double-clicking again will extract the patch as an MSP (Windows Installer Patch) file (in this case FM20.msp
). Be sure to extract the patch to the right directory, some names are not unique. If you are doing multiple languages, append a suffix like _EN
or _NL
to the MSP file. You can then delete the CAB file.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for all KB numbers. Save your work (in my case 393MB in 43 directories) in a safe place.
After a new Office installation, you can visit each directory and double-click each MSP file to install the patch. You might like to do a clean install, install your patch set, and verify that Windows Update finds nothing.
Notes:
A. On Windows 10 you need to go to Settings > Updates > Advanced Options
and enable Receive updates for other Microsoft products
before clicking Check For Updates
. You can then find the updates in View Update History
. In a few cases you may need a few more clicks to get the KB number (eg "Microsoft Office File Validation Add-in" takes you to a web page address including 2501584 which is the KB number.)
B. It does not seem to matter what order you install the patches; I did them in numerical order.
C. In at least one case (KB943452) there is an update for Dutch (NLD) but not for English; other languages may also show variations.
Here is my list for office 2003 (32-bit, EN and NL) YMMV!
907417
943452
943973
947319
955439
974554
975051
978551
980373
980923
981716
2288613
2289163
2293428
2449798
2493523
2501584
2526297
2535812
2539581
2543854
2553065
2596904
2687626
2726929
2760494
2760574
2810048
2817474
2825621
2825645
2850047
2863822
2878299
2878303
2881030
2984938
3085549
3203484
3213641
3213644
4011715
4011717
4018354