Don't know if this will help
I've been having a number of problems after developing in xl2002 and running
on xl97, and ended up saving as 95 and then rebuilding what functionality
was lost in xl97 and since then everything has been great, as well as
rebuilding having appeared to eliminate quite a bit of junk code who knows
where inside my workbook as the file size decreased to a third (1.5MB to
0.5MB!)!
I was having printing problems and dialogues that wouldn't go away about
saving in an older version of Excel, and know it's all great. A pain but
maybe will work, as well as having file size benefits.
HTH
Matt

"VanS" wrote in message
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Hello,
I have a VB6/MS Office Excel/Word VBA app configured in Win XP Office
2003.
I am trying to make it compatible with earlier versions of Office-Office
97
on a Win 98 platform at present-and after researching have decided to try
late binding. According to MS documentation, the application should update
its references when opened in the earlier Office 97 version. It has done
this
for 6 of 8 references: except for the MS Word reference-it is still
looking
for Word 11.0 in the same location as was on the original, newer platform.
Then it is also looking for the MS VBA Extensibility 5.3 file in the
location
of the original, newer platform as well.

Does anyone have an idea how I can get my app to point to the correct 2
references per above? Also should the Extensibility reference be to the
newer
5.3 version (vbe6ext.olb) which per KB article 269116 is a replacement for
the earlier older type library (which I am guessing is vbeext1.olb as that
is
what I find on my Office 97 platform);and if so 1) should I add that to my
installer application. 2) how do I get it to point to the correct
location?
Will I need to use code to locate and set the reference to the file?
Thanks, blessings
Van