Microsoft today released the Service Pack 3 ( SP3) for Office 2007 suite, which is now available for download from Microsoft website.  Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite. This update also applies to Microsoft Office Project, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, Microsoft Office Visio, and Visual Web Developer.

The 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 3 (SP3) offers all cumulative updates since SP1, as well as previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack. In addition to general product fixes, this includes improvements in stability, in performance, and in security.

Overview of the 2007 Office suite SP3 improvements

• Documents that require custom security trimming are not returned from alert search queries, even if the user who created the alert could see and query for these documents.
• Non-Unicode characters in certain error message strings now display correctly.
• Four new bibliography styles are now available in the “Word Citations & Bibliography” feature: Harvard Anglia, IEEE, APA Sixth Edition, and MLA Seventh Edition.
• Chinese New Year holiday is now included in the Outlook calendar for Singapore.
• Fixes an issue in which Excel 2007 sometimes crashes when you open an Excel workbook previously saved in a newer version of Excel. This occurs if the file uses a new feature that is not available in the 2007 Office system.
• Fixes issues with the Pre and Post Reform rules in the French Thesaurus.
• Fixes an issue in which encryption settings are not configurable when they are used with a file format compatibility pack converter and Office 2003 or an earlier version of Office.
• Fixes an issue in which a crash sometimes occurs when an Excel workbook is opened in Excel and then previewed by using the Windows Explorer preview pane feature.
• Fixes an issue in which Excel Slicers and Ribbon customizations are lost when an XLSX file is first saved as an ODS file, and then saved as an XLSX file in Excel 2007.

Download Microsoft Office 2007 Suite Service Pack 3 (SP3) For Free:

For the time being, Office 2007 customers will need to head over to the Microsoft Download Center and manually install the upgrade. After 90 days, Office 2007 customers will receive the update automatically.

Download Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) from Microsoft Download Center

The installer for english version is around 351 MB. If you want the service pack in a different language, simply use the dropdown menu to download the respective file.  Because Office service packs are cumulative, you do not have to install Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2 before you install Service Pack 3. Service Pack 3 includes all fixes which were included in Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2.