Mailmerge and Word Viewer

[mmaglin2]

Office XP Developer and Access 2K mdb

I use mailmerge to link to an existing word doc using the Packaging
Wizard Runtime version of access. On my test platform I do not have
any Office applications (worse case, right?). My linked word doc opens
in notepad and obviously with none of the linked field data.

1) Will Word Viewer work if I included it or have the end user install
it?

2) How can I tell with VBA if the end user has word installed so I can
go right to a form pointing to the download site?

TIA,
Mark

 

[TC]

Re. (2), you could check for the existance of the registry key,
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application. If that key exists, Word is
installed on that PC. If it doesn't, it isn't. You'll need to find some
VBA for reading data from the registry - do some googling, there are
loads of examples.

HTH,
TC (MVP Access)
http://tc2.atspace.com