I can't help you identify what version of Word on a Mac you may have. I don't know anything about Macs, and I've never used Word on a Mac.
There are also versions of Word for Mac computers.
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We can see that this installation was part of Office Pro 2003. For example, some may include Outlook and some may not. Each Office suite includes a slightly different combination of products. Microsoft sells Word in several ways: as a stand-alone product or in one of several Office suites. This dialog box also says "Part of Microsoft Office Professional 2003".
Microsoft has more information and guidance on interpreting the patch level. The "SP3" indicates that Service Pack 3 is installed.
And, Microsoft has issued three service packs. The numbers 8313.8221 indicate the level of updates that had been applied to this installation of Word 2003 when this screenshot was taken. Over the years, Microsoft has issued lots of updates (also known as patches) to Word 2003. The 11 at the beginning of 11.8313.8221 confirms that this is Word 11. "Word 2003" is the public 'marketing' name Word 11 is its 'real' name. Or you might have Word 2000, Word 97 or, possibly an even older version. You might have Word 2002 (also known as Word XP, but unrelated to Windows XP). Add-ins and other extensibility solutions that are compatible with Office 2016 will most likely be compatible with Office 2019 or will require only minimal testing.The Help > About dialog tells you what version of Word you have.Other registry locations and settings information that reference 16.0 will still apply.Existing Group Policy settings will continue to work, because the registry location for those settings will still be located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0 and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0.Microsoft: The major version of Office 2019 is staying at 16.0, so some additional things are staying the same for those upgrading from Office 2016, including the following: We now know officially that Microsoft decided to keep the major Excel version number for Excel 2019 the same as for Excel 2016 on purpose (which I still find a strange decision).
This makes us wonder if Microsoft has forgotten to update the internal version number of Excel from 16.0 to 17.0? Update JanuMicrosoft: The major version of Office 2019 is staying at 16.0 Although we did notice that Excel 2016 with the latest updates is missing some features that are new in Excel 2019, such as funnel charts. Has Microsoft forgotten to update the internal version number in Excel 2019?īased on the detailed version numbers (7.20118), it seems as if Excel 2016 with the latest updates is exactly the same as the new launched Excel 2019. In the "Programs and Features" section in the Windows Control Panel, the version number of Office 2019 is also 16.0. Via File > Account, Office 2016, shows the exact same version as Office 2019: Upon further research, we noticed that the detailed version numbers, via "File > Account > About Excel" are also exactly the same for Excel 20:Įxcel 2019 with latest updates on October 5th, 2018 shows: 7.20118Įxcel 2016 with latest updates on October 5th, 2018 shows 7.20118: The command "Application.Version", returns 16,0 for both Excel 2016 and the new Excel 2019.Īnd the command "Application.Build", also returns the exact same number when the latest updates are installed. To our surprise, we noticed that the new Excel 2019 internally still shows the number 16 as the version and not a higher number such as 17 or 19. We recently purchased and installed the new Office 2019 in order to (successfully) test ASAP Utilities with it. We expected Excel 2019 to return the number 17.0 (or 19.0) but certainly not 16.0.
However, the new Excel 2019 returns the same version number as Excel 2016 (16.0). Is Excel 2019 just Excel 2016 with a new name?Įxcel developers can use the command "Application.Version" to get the version of Excel.