There have been lots of problems with the SR-2 A and B patches. In fact
Microsoft withdrew  A for a while.  I would suggest you go to
www.wopr.com    for the easiest to find  answers and most comprehensive
source about the problems associated with this patch or any Office
question. These guys are THE experts when it comes to Word. WOPR is a
software enchantment package for Word that has been around since Word 2.0
days. WOPR publishes a weekly news letter  that explained all the problems
and goings on with this patch. You can check their archives for this. They
even have a online forum where you can post a question to the programmers.

The best I can remember about this particular patch is that there is very
little reason to install it and if you are using Outlook the security
patches which are within 2a can be obtained independently.

m

I have encountered a strange problem while attempting to apply two updates
>to a base version of Office 97.  I installed SR-1, and all appeared to be
>well.  When I attempted to install SR-2a, I received the following error
>message:
>
>     The Microsoft Office 97 SR-2 patch cannot be applied to your computer.
>Either Office 97
>     is not installed on this computer, or there are files from multiple
>versions of Office 97 on
>     this computer.  Try installing Office 97 or running the latest SR-1
>patch to correct the problem.
>     Or, contact Microsoft Technical Support for further assistance.



>Paul A. Shippert               Library/Media Specialist

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