XPost: alt.comp.lang.vb, alt.comp.lang.vba, comp.lang.basic.visual.misc   
   XPost: microsoft.public.word.vba   
   From: dean.earley@icode.co.uk   
      
   Laphan wrote:   
   > Hi All   
   >   
   > I'm using a VB6 app to connect to MS Word and produce/populate a lovely doc   
   > of Word type origins.   
   >   
   > This worked fine when the user simply installed Office 2000, 2003, etc onto   
   > their laptop, but a number of laptops are coming with an Office 2007 trial   
   > pre-installed, which the user has no idea about, and when they subsequently   
   > re-install their Office 2000, 2003 whatever on it, my app throws a wobbler   
   > because it doesn't know which version of Word to use.  The error is usually   
   > a problem with 'Automatiion'??   
   >   
   > If the user only has one version of Office on their laptop/PC it works fine   
   > and I still want my app to simply use any version of Word it can find, it   
   > currently works with Office 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007 without issues -   
   > providing that only one variant is installed, but is there anyway I can sort   
   > of get round this possible dual install of Word versions?   
   >   
   > For some reason a really mickey mouse (and old) app, not sure what it was   
   > written in, doesn't have this problem at all - it just seems to pick a   
   > version automatically - even though it doesn't really know one from the   
   > other.   
      
   Depending which version you have and hwo you create it, it should use   
   the last installed or the latest.   
   Can you be more specific on the error message?   
   Than maybe, we can help.   
      
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   Dean Earley (dean.earley@icode.co.uk)   
   i-Catcher Development Team   
      
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