I understand what you want. Answer is the same.

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Tom Ogilvy

Jack <replyto@newsgroup wrote in message
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Tom, not running theExcel instance, but the existance of the installed
program I need to check.

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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The most trustworthy would be to start it with CreateObject. (or use
GetObject which would get an existing running instance if one was up).

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Tom Ogilvy


Jack <replyto@newsgroup wrote in message
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I mean Excel installed, not running.