Check to see if other Office Aplications are installed

[John Dumay]

hi All,

In my application I want to interact with other office applications. How do
I check for example if Word or Outlook are installed. I need to know as i
want to distribute the application and turn of these features if they are not
present on a clients machine.

As always any help is always appreciated.

Regards,

John Dumay

 

[Tom Wickerath]

Hi John,

If you use late binding, then you can trap for error 429, which will be
raised if a given application is not installed. One advantage to using late
binding is that no checked reference is required. Version specific references
can be a problem if you are setting references to Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.

To find out if an application is installed, you might try using the code
shown in this method:

Get Version of Office Exes (detecting Office patches)
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0065.htm

This article might be of some use as well:

Find the associated EXE file
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0023.htm


Tom Wickerath
Microsoft Access MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tom
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/expert_contributors.html
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[John Dumay]

Thanks Tom,

I am sure I can make something work using the info provided.

Regards,

John