VanS,

Hate to say it, but I think you have gotten in to a real mess by not taking
the advice that Tom and I gave you (sorry to keep dragging your name in Tom,
but it gives extra credence to my statements, I hope <g). I may be wrong,
but I don't think you would have had this problem if you developed on the
earlier version, and deployed to the later.

As to the specific question asked, I am not ware as to how you can late bind
Office. Excel is an Office application, and as such, even if Excel is
installed stand-alone, the office components are installed, included the
type library. The best I can suggest is that you go to ToolsReferences and
see if any items are marked as missing, if so correct them.

--

HTH

RP
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"VanS" wrote in message
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Hello,
I have a VB, Excel/Word VBA app running in Excel with automation. I have
developed it on my Win XP Pro, OFfice 2003 system, but need to make it
backward compatible to a Win 98 Office 97 platform. After researching it
seemed best to implement via late binding which I did by removing
references
to Word which helped that issue. Then I had issues with losing references
to
the VBA 5.3 Extensibility library and KB articles suggested using late
binding for that as well, so I removed that reference. Now my app (again
under Win 98 Office 97 VPC) bombs out unable to use String functions as
Left,
Mid and Format which are under the VBA Object library. I tried removing
the
VBA reference but it wouldn't allow me since it was in use. Since Office
97
uses the VB5 model, I'm assuming I need to do late binding for that as
well.
Can anyone tell me if that is the case and how to implement it? Or if it
is
another issue?
Thanks, God bless,
Van