After commenting the other day how slow Microsoft Word is, I started to wonder if there were any updates available for MS Office. Up until now, I assumed that MS Office was automatically included in Windows Update but it seems apparently not.

There's Windows Update - http://www.update.windows.com - which gives you the latest security patches and upgrades for the Windows operating system. But there is also Microsoft Upgrade - http://www.update.microsoft.com - which covers all the Microsoft products including Office. When I ran Microsoft Update, it ran for 9 minutes and then gave me a list of 17 urgent security upgrades for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Outlook.

So if you were not aware that Microsoft Update even existed then go to the site now and check for urgent security upgrades! You'll probably find you have quite a few waiting for you.