On new machines we often find "Trial Versions" of Office which, if we never use it we tend to forget about.
Any chance you had a trial version of Office when this system was new? I know that the general thought is to uninstall any trial versions before installing full versions.
Also, if you open Office 2010, (any of its components like Word, Excel etc), and go to Help > About, is there an option to check for updates?
Mark
I recently installed Office 2010 on a Dell laptop running Vista Home Premium.Office has been activated and is working OK but Windows update keeps alerting me to Office 2007 updates, I can't find any remnant of Office 2007. I tried downloading Office 2010 SP1 to install it manually but when I try to run it just get a message saying there are no matching products installed on the computer.
Any ideas folks? I tried searching Microsoft support for an answer but not a hope in hell of any help there.

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