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Dear all,

   I am a developer of IME (Input Method Editor) and I have tried to
integrate IME with .NET 2.0 based GUI via managed C++. It worked fine
on Office 2007. To Word 2003 and Excel 2003, it requires KB907417
(http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B907417&x=5&y=8) to
load the IME DLL normally. To pre-Office 2003 versions, however,
there's no hotfix to make them support .NET 2.0 based DLL.

   Since Office 2003 allows users to keep older version of
Word/Excel/PowerPoint, it dramatically worked on Word/Excel XP/2000 if
there's also a patched Office 2003 on the same environment, although
only Office 2003's Addins folder, which is "Program Files\Microsoft
Office\OFFICE11\Addins", has the patched "otkloadr.dll"

   I've tried to copy the content of "OFFICE11\Addins" to
pre-Office2003's Addins folder, "OFFICE\Addins" of Office 2000, for
example, it did not work.

   The question is that if KB907417 works for Office 2003 and
propagates to pre-Office2003 version, is it possible to have a patch
specifically for Office XP and Office 2000?

   Thank you for your patience to read this long mail.

   Sincerely,
Mike