or trying to create an instance. I guess that would fail if Excel wasn't
present.

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"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
...
"Bob Phillips" wrote...
Use

application.version
..

Kinda Chicken & Egg-ish. If there's no version of Excel at all, there's no
way
to execute this statement. Check whether Excel exists at all could be done
by
searching for EXCEL.EXE.

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