Brave01Heart, you performed the normal update to an existing installation of Office and it sounds like it worked fine.

"Slipstreaming" is installing the service pack directly into the setup files rather than the installed program.
When someone installs Office from these files they end up directly at the SP2 level without having to do both a normal install and the service pack install.
It's a way of "updating" your CD rather than just one installed system.
Dave

Hi to all who have replied to my post.

With reference to the post from DaveH: Yes I realise what slipstreaming is and what it does, but the reason I made my initial post regarding installing OXPSP2 was because when SP2 was released a few days ago, I saw many posts from various users who were getting errors when installing it and, consequently, the update using the normal SP2 download, did not work, and they were recommended to try the 'admin' pack.

That's why, before I went for the Admin version, I decided to try installing the normal SP2 download and was surprised to find out that, I did not get any errors (apart from setup asking for the Cd's), and it installed ok.

Best regards

Brave01Heart

Hi Brave01Heart

That makes sense: the "normal" SP2 upgrade will fail if it finds that the current Office XP installation was made from an administrative install point / CD , or from a SP1 administrative install/slipstreamed CD.

There's a well known w@rezed Office XP CD which is no more than an administrative install point back-up... those who use it can't apply the "normal" SP1/SP2 and must go for the "admin".