Thanks for your response, RB. God bless
Van

"RB Smissaert" wrote:

This bit of code works with old Word libraries.
Not sure about the VBA Extensibility 5.3.

Sub ActivateWordLibrary()

Dim r

On Error Resume Next

'no need to carry on if the Word Object Library is already there
'---------------------------------------------------------------
For Each r In ThisWorkbook.VBProject.References
If r.GUID = "{00020905-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}" Then
Exit Sub
End If
Next

'Will this work with any Word version from 97 upwards?
'-----------------------------------------------------
'hopefully it will by doing Major:=0, Minor:=0
'Word 2002 is Major:=8, Minor:=2
'Word 2003 is Major:=8, Minor:=3
'-----------------------------------------------------
ThisWorkbook.VBProject.References.AddFromGuid _
GUID:="{00020905-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}", _
Major:=0, Minor:=0

On Error GoTo 0

End Sub

Note that this for an Excel .xla add-in and that is why it is ThisWorkbook
and not ActiveWorkbook.


RBS



"VanS" wrote in message
...
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